Canadian Institute of Forestry
Tour of Ireland – May 12th to 18th
Sunday – May 12th Host: TED WILSON Participants arrive in Dublin – evening reception and dinner Informal meet and greet – with Society of Irish Foresters from Dublin area Overnight in Dublin – Hotel TBA
Monday – May 13th Host: NUALA NI FHLATHARTA AM – Ashtown (Dublin) Teagasc Centre Welcome from Teagasc & Department of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Marine Official welcome from Minister of State for Forestry Outline of forestry in Ireland – history, policy and practice Outline the Teagasc Forestry programme (Teagasc) Short perspectives on Canadian forestry by the visiting group. Tour of Teagasc forestry research o tree breeding work - labs/glasshouse/tunnels o Shade experiment o Ash dieback research? Lunch at Ashtown Research Centre Commemorative tree planting PM – Travel to Durrow CO Offaly Teagasc Silviculture Research Experiments, Niall Farrelly Travel to and overnight in TULLAMORE
Tuesday – May 14th Host: LIAM KELLY AM – Travel to the Slieve Bloom area Coillte – Forest operations and the Glendine Sitka spruce stand Lunch – Location TBA PM – Visit Birr Castle and Estate Travel to and Overnight in KILLALOE
Wednesday – May 15th Host: JONATHAN SPAZZI AM – Visit the Cliffs of Moher Lunch? PM – Raheen Forest Estate; historical 200 ha Mc Lysaght private estate. Section of the mature Estate (150 ha) leased by Coillte for industrial timber (SS clearfell), 50 ha
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privately managed with a range of integrated sylvicultural systems: CCF, clear felling and conservation management - Includes a 300-year-old sessile oak section under NW Scheme and a community woodland section (Nighbourwood). Near scenic lakeside village of Killaloe. Points of interest include history of Irish forestry, Sitka spruce harvesting, silvicultual systems, sustainable production and recreation. Overnight in KILLALOE
Thursday – May 16th Host: MICHAEL SOMERS & IAN SHORT AM – Travel to Bansha and meet with the directors of the Limerick and Tipperary Woodland Owners Ltd. on John Kavanagh’s property. This will include private forestry and growers’ groups; hardwoods and estate forestry Visit the Rock of Cashel. Lunch (Horse and Jockey) PM – Visit Jim Dunnes’ specialty Sawmill and Jim O’Brien’s Hurley mill in Drangan Travel to and overnight in THURLES Evening program - Music session and story-telling in Jim Ryans of Upperchurch.
Friday – May 17th Host: MICHAEL SOMERS AM – Visit the Castlecomer Discovery Park, Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny Joint venture with Coillte and the community Lunch in Castlecomer PM – Visit Coillte’s Ballintemple Nursery and seed centre Travel to and overnight in Laragh near WICKLOW
Saturday – May 18th Host: PADDY PURSER AND LIAM BYRNE plus Ted Wilson AM – Travel Laragh and tour of forestry in the Wicklow mountains Private forestry - Knockrath Estate owned by the Brabazon family Continuous Cover Silviculture Lunch PM – Visit Glendalough Monastic ruins Tour of the Glendalough craft distillery Return to Dublin Evening dinner and farewell social in Dublin Overnight in DUBLIN
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