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Forestry Data

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 27 May 2020

Wednesday, 27 May 2020

Ceisteanna (673)

Charlie McConalogue

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673. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of agricultural land in each county that has been planted with forestry to date in tabular form. [7827/20]

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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

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