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Gaelic Ireland

English rule

Present management

Gallery for use in article

A path through Portglenone Forest, on the Co. Antrim side of the River Bann

Forest track on Mt. Alto near Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny

Red deer (Cervus elephus) stags in Knockreer in Killarney National Park. Beyond the field lies oak woodland.

Entrance from the R165 into the state forest at Knock

Road in Tollymore Forest Park, the first state forest park in Northern Ireland

References

Peer-reviewed journals:

• https://journal.societyofirishforesters.ie/index.php/forestry/article/view/10940/10022
• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/252167208_A_Cluster_Analysis_Approach_To_Classifying_Irish_Native_Woodlands
• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/0959683616683252
• https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/03746600508685083?needAccess=true
• https://journal.societyofirishforesters.ie/index.php/forestry/article/view/8487
• https://journals.openedition.org/etudesirlandaises/6812

Coillte:

• https://www.coillte.ie/a-brief-history-of-irelands-native-woodlands/
• https://www.coillte.ie/coillte-dublin-mountains-makeover-to-transform-forests/
• https://www.coillte.ie/work-begins-on-the-dublin-mountains-makeover/
• https://www.coillte.ie/invasive-species-control-and-tree-felling-works-for-cornagillagh-and-derrycarne-woods/
• Coillte Nature has five projects: https://www.coillte.ie/coillte-nature/ourprojects
• https://www.coillte.ie/our-forests/public-goods/biodiversity/
• "coillte" wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/coillte (singular "coill": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/coill)

Millenium Forests:

• https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/environment/land/millennium-forests-in-ireland/
• https://www.millenniumforests.com/index.html; https://web.archive.org/web/20240118041536/https://www.millenniumforests.com/
• https://www.coillte.ie/media/2021/02/Use-of-Chemicals-by-Coillte-2021-V2.pdf chemical usage in Coillte's forestry: glyphosate as an herbicide to "control invasive species and other weeds", and acetamiprid and coragen as insecticides; chemicals only used on young trees during the establishment phase of the forest cycle
• https://www.teagasc.ie/crops/forestry/advice/general-topics/history-of-forestry-in-ireland/
• https://www.teagasc.ie/news--events/daily/forestry/a-historical-view-of-woodlands-in-ireland.php
• https://www.woodlandsofireland.com/wp-content/uploads/No.-2-Woodland-Management-History.pdf
• https://www.forestryfocus.ie/forests-woodland/history-of-irish-forestry/
• https://www.woodlandsofireland.com/wp-content/uploads/No.-2-Woodland-Management-History-Info-Note-low-res-Updated-Aug22-2019.pdf
• https://www.wolfgangreforest.ie/irish-forestry-history/ history of deforestation and wolf extermination
• Cross, John R. (2012). Ireland's Woodland Heritage. Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. https://www.npws.ie/sites/default/files/publications/pdf/Woodlands%20booklet.pdf

• O'Connelly, Catherine (1997). "Bogland: Study and Utilization". In Foster, John Wilson; Chesney, Helena C.G. (eds.). Nature in Ireland: A Scientific and Cultural History. Dublin: The Lilliput Press. pp. 184–198. ISBN 978-1-874675-89-1.

• Neeson, Eoin (1997). "Woodland in History and Culture". In Foster, John Wilson; Chesney, Helena C.G. (eds.). Nature in Ireland: A Scientific and Cultural History. Dublin: The Lilliput Press. pp. 133–156. ISBN 978-1-874675-89-1.