Written answers
Wednesday, 17 January 2018
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Forestry Data
Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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147. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of hectares of forestry in each county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2194/18]
Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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My Department compiles a number of different afforestation statistics which are available on my Department's website including the National Forest Inventory Results Data which are an invaluable source of statistical information on Ireland’s forest estate.
The area of forestry in each county is indicated in the table, which is taken from the National Forest Inventory.
County | Hectares '000 |
---|---|
Carlow | 8.4 |
Cavan | 16.83 |
Clare | 52.29 |
Cork | 83.62 |
Donegal | 56.34 |
Dublin | 5.23 |
Galway | 59.41 |
Kerry | 53.17 |
Kildare | 10.4 |
Kilkenny | 19.02 |
Laois | 25.26 |
Leitrim | 26.5 |
Limerick | 26.34 |
Longford | 8.36 |
Louth | 2.43 |
Mayo | 51.73 |
Meath | 12.5 |
Monaghan | 5.6 |
Offaly | 24.51 |
Roscommon | 25.88 |
Sligo | 20.58 |
Tipperary | 47.85 |
Waterford | 26.55 |
Westmeath | 13.17 |
Wexford | 13.83 |
Wicklow | 35.86 |
Total | 731.65 |
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