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Woodland Trust Northern Ireland buys ancient land in Co Down
The conservation charity has purchased 386 acres of the Mourne Park estate which has been in private ownership for over 500 years amid plans to restore it
09:22, 24 MAY 2021
Whitewater River in Mourne Park
Nearly 400 acres of ancient woodland could be open to the public for free by next year after it was bought by the Woodland Trust Northern Ireland. Mourne Park, which is set at the southern side of the Mournes just beyond Kilkeel, Co Down, has been in private ownership for more than 500 hundred years.
But thanks to funding from DAERA, Garfield Weston Foundation and gifts in wills, the UK’s largest woodland conservation charity has taken ownership and management of 156 hectares (386 acres) of the estate with ambitions to restore ancient woodland.
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