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The number of people visiting the Dublin Mountains increased by over 100 per cent last year.
Coillte says overall visitor numbers to the country’s top 50 forests were 2.2 million from the beginning of March to the end of December 2020. This represents an overall increase of 38% from 1.6 million for the same period in 2019.
Top ten forest locations include Dublin, Monaghan, Kildare, Wexford.
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Some forests like the Dublin Mountains, Rossmore in Monaghan and Donadea in Kildare experienced doubling or tripling of visitor numbers.
The Dublin Mountains - of which Ticknock Forest accounts for the majority - is the most visited, followed by Rossmore Forest Park, Co. Monaghan and Donadea Forest Park in Co Kildare.
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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.