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Tuesday, 22 January 2019

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Forestry Data

Photo of Jackie CahillJackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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476. To ask 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. [2370/19]

Photo of Michael CreedMichael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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I refer the Deputy to his question raised last October, (41679/18 – Dáil Question No 153), in which he requested the same data.

The area of land afforested in each county is indicated in the table below, which is taken from the third NFI. The area of forest is estimated to be 770,020 ha or 11% of the total land area of Ireland (NFI 2017).

County% Area
Carlow9.4
Cavan9.3
Clare17.2
Cork12.1
Donegal11.4
Dublin6.5
Galway9.9
Kerry12.1
Kildare6.1
Kilkenny9.6
Laois15.4
Leitrim18.9
Limerick10.4
Longford8.4
Louth2.9
Mayo9.2
Meath5.7
Monaghan4.6
Offaly14.7
Roscommon11.1
Sligo11.4
Tipperary11.8
Waterford14.7
Westmeath8.2
Wexford6.2
Wicklow17.9

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