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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
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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.
BBC News
By Conor Macauley
Published
media captionThe Woodland Trust plans to open the forest to the public in 2022
The public is to get access to an ancient woodland which has been in private ownership for more than 500 years.
One hundred and fifty six hectares of Mourne Park outside Kilkeel has been bought by the Woodland Trust.
It plans to open the forest to the public in 2022 after preparatory work has been completed.
Mourne Park has been owned by the Anley Family for five centuries.
Almost half the forest meets the criteria for ancient woodland, one of Northern Ireland s scarcest habitats.
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