Native Woodlands across Ireland
Ireland’s native and semi-natural woods, the ones with public access and a walk you can actually do. These are sessile oak, yew, holly, hazel and birch rather than planted conifer, and most of them survive as fragments of a forest that once covered far more ground. Some stand on their own as nature reserves; others are the old woods inside the national parks.
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Dromore Wood Nature Reserve
A National Parks and Wildlife nature reserve near Ruan in Clare — hazel-ash woodland, a lake, turloughs and the ruins of Dromore Castle, with marked trails.
Last verified 2026-07-20
Glen of the Downs Nature Reserve
A steep valley of sessile oak on the N11 in north Wicklow, and the best surviving oak wood of its kind within reach of Dublin.
Last verified 2026-07-11
Glengarriff Woods Nature Reserve
Three hundred hectares of old oak woodland a kilometre outside Glengarriff village in west Cork, rated one of the best oceanic sessile oak woods in Ireland.
Last verified 2026-07-11
Glenveagh National Park
Native oak and birch woodland on the lower slopes of a glaciated valley in the Derryveagh Mountains, Donegal.
Last verified 2026-07-11
Killarney National Park
Ten thousand hectares of oak and yew wood, lake and mountain in Kerry, including Reenadinna, the largest yew woodland in Western Europe.
Last verified 2026-07-11
Tomnafinnoge Woods
The last fragment of the great oak woods of Tinahely, in south Wicklow.
Last verified 2026-07-11