The area of land afforested in each county is set out in the following table, which is taken from the third National Forest Inventory (NFI) published in 2019 and is the most up-to-date dataset currently available. The area of forest in Ireland is estimated to be 770,020 ha or 11% of the total land area of Ireland (NFI 2017).
County
|
% Area
|
Carlow
|
9.4
|
Cavan
|
9.3
|
Clare
|
17.2
|
Cork
|
12.1
|
Donegal
|
11.4
|
Dublin
|
6.5
|
Galway
|
9.9
|
Kerry
|
12.1
|
Kildare
|
6.1
|
Kilkenny
|
9.6
|
Laois
|
15.4
|
Leitrim
|
18.9
|
Limerick
|
10.4
|
Longford
|
8.4
|
Louth
|
2.9
|
Mayo
|
9.2
|
Meath
|
5.7
|
Monaghan
|
4.6
|
Offaly
|
14.7
|
Roscommon
|
11.1
|
Sligo
|
11.4
|
Tipperary
|
11.8
|
Waterford
|
14.7
|
Westmeath
|
8.2
|
Wexford
|
6.2
|
Wicklow
|
17.9
|