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Visitor numbers at some of Ireland’s most popular forests tripled after the pandemic broke last year.
The State-owned forestry agency Coillte has today published its list of the top ten most popular forests on its books.
The agency said visits to the forests it owns around the country jumped by nearly 40% over lockdown – with over 2.2 million people visiting between March and December.
The agency also compared visitor numbers in February, the month before lockdown was first introduced, with those in December, and found that forest parks in Dublin and Monaghan doubled.
Meanwhile, visitors to Donadea in County Kildare and Curragh Chase in Limerick tripled over the same period.