Hollyfort Tree Awareness

Hollyfort Trees
Irish native trees are those that reached Ireland before it was separated from the rest of Europe. Our most common native trees include oak, ash, hazel, birch, Scots pine, rowan and willow. Eventually, people brought other trees, such as beech, sycamore, horse chestnut, spruce, larch and fir to Ireland.

Mountain Ash

Hollyfort Village and surrounds is full of interesting trees. Over the last few years we have lost a number of trees due to storm damage and so the Tidy Towns group have planted a variety of saplings to replace and further enhance the tree population. These include silver birch, mountain ash and beech.

Silver Birch

What is the Tree Council?

The Tree Council is an umbrella body for organisations involved in tree planting, management and conservation. The main role of the Tree Council is to promote the planting, care and enjoyment of trees. The Tree Council aims to educate the public through the organisation of events and tree related activities, the publication of literature, the management of national tree records and through the provision of an information service to the public.

The heritage trees register is an important resource that the Tree Council is involved in creating and maintaining. We all want our heritage and ancient trees to survive as long as possible and to do this we need to protect them. The only way we can do this is to know where they are. We need to find them, map them, photograph them and record them. (http://treecouncil.ie)