Written answers
Wednesday, 26 June 2013
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Forestry Sector
John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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212. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of privately owned forests, by county, here. [31157/13]
Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The table below shows the number of private forests by county that received grant-aid from my Department during the period 1980 to 2012. It is not possible to provide data for the total number of private forests as no information exists on the non-grant-aided private estate.
County | Number of Forests |
---|---|
Carlow | 230 |
Cavan | 761 |
Clare | 2,264 |
Cork | 3,170 |
Donegal | 1,242 |
Dublin | 86 |
Galway | 1,520 |
Kerry | 2,503 |
Kildare | 399 |
Kilkenny | 939 |
Laois | 624 |
Leitrim | 1,002 |
Limerick | 1,253 |
Longford | 545 |
Louth | 82 |
Mayo | 1,913 |
Meath | 441 |
Monaghan | 279 |
Offaly | 811 |
Roscommon | 1,259 |
Sligo | 898 |
Tipperary | 1,782 |
Waterford | 805 |
Westmeath | 554 |
Wexford | 704 |
Wicklow | 654 |
Total | 26,720 |
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