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Heritage Trees in County Donegal Heritage Trees in County Donegal Species Location Height/Girth Heritage Value Comments Fraxinus excelsior Guystown, Ballindrait, Co. Height: 19 m Tree with Character. Habitat value. Burred bole on large pedestal Ash Donegal Girth: 5.02 m Populus tremula Glenveagh Castle, Height: 14 m Exceptional Specimen Tree. Charming example of a scarce Aspen Churchill, Co. Donegal Girth: 1.58 m Habitat value. native A large beech with a cavity Glebe Gallery, Churchill, Height:21 m Arboricultural Curiosity. Fagus sylvatica Beech that was filled with a brick Co. Donegal Girth: 5.21 m Habitat value. wall over 40 years ago This tree is known locally as Quercus petraea Glenveagh Castle, Height: 4 m Named tree. Habitat value. 'The Black Bush' or 'An Sessile Oak Churchill, Co. Donegal Girth: 1.67 m Forms part of an historic landscape. Dubh'. It is a self-sown oak growing out of the rocks. Exceptional Specimen Trees. Found by soccer grounds and Ulmus glabra Lifford Road, Donegal Height:25 m Genetic resource for local tree river. New champion Wych Elm Town, Co. Donegal Girth: 4.71 m population. discovery. 2 young birch rag trees; by the Betula pendula Well of Doon, Height: 2 m Named tree. A site of religious inauguration site of the Silver Birch Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal Girth: 0 m significance. O'Donnell's; many ailments are cured here. Tree with Character. Genetic Massive old elm on burial Ulmus glabra Lifford Road, Donegal Height:18 m resource for local tree population. ground for victims of the Wych Elm Town, Co. Donegal Girth: 4.52 m Association with a historic event. great famine. Fagus sylvatica var. Ballyloughan House, Height: 0 m Arboricultural Curiosity. A particularly beautiful tall heterophylla Bruckles, Co. Donegal Girth: 2.81 m Habitat value. beech. Fern Leaf Beech Fagus sylvatica var. Green House, Rathmelton, Height: 20 m Exceptional Specimen Tree. The larger of pair of beech in heterophylla Co. Donegal Girth: 3.92 m Habitat value. glorious autumn colour. Fern Leaf Beech Described in 1933 as a small tree,appears to have grown Ginkgo biloba Hawthorn Heights, Height: 9 m Unusual Location. little since which leads one to Ginkgo/Maidenhair Dunkineely, Co. Donegal Girth: 0.84 m believe it could be older than would be expected. This elm is growing at the Exceptional Specimen Tree. Ulmus glabra Carrablagh, Portsalon, Co. Height: 17 m home of H.C. Hart, the 19th Habitat value. Wych Elm Donegal Girth: 2.81 m century botanist and Associated with a noted person. hillwalker. A great example of a native Ilex aquifolium Glenveagh Castle, Height: 10 m Tree collection / Arboretum. holly growing exceptionally Holly Churchill, Co. Donegal Girth: 2.2 m Habitat value. well in the shelter of a garden. Aesculus Oakfield House Demesne, Height: 14 m Arboricultural Curiosity. Extremely hollow defying hippocastanum Raphoe, Co. Donegal Girth: 5.65 m Habitat value. gravity and logic. Horse Chestnut Aesculus The massive girth of this Sligo Road, Donegal Height: 0 m Landmark Tree. hippocastanum horse chestnut is exaggerated Town, Co. Donegal Girth: 6.23 m Habitat value. Horse Chestnut by its low branching. Cupressus macrocarpa A very fine specimen of the Ballyconnell House, Height: 19 m 'Lutea' Monterey Exceptional Specimen Tree. golden Monterey cypress on Falcarragh, Co. Donegal Girth: 6.53 m Cypress the edge of the wood. This Monterey cypress has the Cupressus macrocarpa Capuchin Friary, Ards, Height: 29 m Exceptional Specimen Tree. 3rd greatest girth of any tree Monterey Cypress Cresslough, Co. Donegal Girth: 11.77 m Habitat value. in Ireland. Pinus radiata Capuchin Friary, Ards, Height: 26 m Exceptional Specimen Tree. Monterey pine; only meters Monterey Pine Cresslough, Co. Donegal Girth: 7.31 m Habitat value. from the sea. Sorbus aucuparia Castlegrove House Hotel, Height: 12 m Exceptional Specimen Tree. A huge mountain ash within Mountain Ash/Rowan Letterkenny, Co. Donegal Girth: 2.08 m Habitat value. an old garden tree collection. St. Senan's GFC, Quercus robur Height: 24 m Landmark Tree. Ballymacool, Letterkenny, Single tree on mound. Pedunculate Oak Girth: 5.01 m Habitat value. Co. Donegal St Colmcille's Holy Well, Tree with Character. Corylus avellana Height: 3 m St Colmcille's Holy Well with Carryblagh, Portsalon, Habitat value. Hazel Girth: 0.9 m hazel ragtrees beside it. Co. Donegal A tree with folklore or mythology. Castanea sativa Oakfield House Demesne, Height: 16 m Tree with Character. Habitat value. Lovely twisting bole on a Sweet/Spanish Raphoe, Co. Donegal Girth: 6.49 m Forms part of an historic landscape. burred pedestal. Chestnut Arboricultural Curiosity . A lone hawthorn tree growing Crataegus monogyna Tullymore, Ballyshannon, Height: 3 m Habitat value. out of exposed rock; by the Hawthorn Co. Donegal Girth: 1.42 m A tree with folklore or mythology. N15. Castanea sativa Named Tree. Known as the '12 apostles'. Oakfield House Demesne, Height: 18 m Sweet/Spanish Habitat value. Savagely cut back in the Raphoe, Co. Donegal Girth: 9.89 m Chestnut Forms part of an historic landscape. distant past Trochodendron A beautiful example of a rare Glenveagh Castle, Height: 8 m aralioides Tree collection / Arboretum. tree; found in a brilliant Churchill, Co. Donegal Girth: 1.04 m Wheel Tree collection of exotics. Exceptional Specimen Tree. This elm has a beautiful Ulmus glabra Ballyconnell House, Height: 17 m Genetic resource for local tree burred stem; growing in Wych Elm Falcarragh, Co. Donegal Girth: 4.12 m population. mixed woodland. Bridge Cottage, Exceptional Specimen Tree. Ulmus glabra Height: 15 m A beautiful pendulous Mulnamina Beg, Genetic resource for local tree Wych Elm Girth: 2.97 m specimen of elm. Glenties, Co. Donegal population. Exceptional Specimen Trees. Ulmus glabra Bruckles House, Height: 19 m One of many old elms that are Genetic resource for local tree Wych Elm Bruckles, Co. Donegal Girth: 3.68 m managing to survive here. population. Exceptional Specimen Trees. Ulmus glabra Bruckles House, Height: 22 m One of many old elms that are Genetic resource for local tree Wych Elm Bruckles, Co. Donegal Girth: 3.54 m managing to survive here. population. This remarkable elm is one of Exceptional Specimen Trees. Ulmus glabra Clonmullan House, Height: 19 m a reasonable population that Genetic resource for local tree Wych Elm Clonmullan, Co. Donegal Girth: 3.66 m have continued to grow in the population. stronghold of Donegal. This remarkable elm is one of Exceptional Specimen Tree. Ulmus glabra Clonmullan House, Height: 18 m a reasonable population that Genetic resource for local tree Wych Elm Clonmullan, Co. Donegal Girth: 3.79 m have continued to grow in the population. stronghold of Donegal. This remarkable elm is one of Exceptional Specimen Tree. Ulmus glabra Clonmullan House, Height: 6 m a reasonable population that Genetic resource for local tree Wych Elm Clonmullan, Co. Donegal Girth: 3.58 m have continued to grow in the population. stronghold of Donegal. This remarkable elm is one of Exceptional Specimen Tree. Ulmus glabra Clonmullan House, Height: 7 m a reasonable population that Genetic resource for local tree Wych Elm Clonmullan, Co. Donegal Girth: 2.45 m have continued to grow in the population. stronghold of Donegal. Arboricultural Curiosity. Ulmus glabra Hollymount, Rathmullan, Height: 4 m A beautiful, spreading, Genetic resource for local tree Wych Elm Co. Donegal Girth: 1.72 m weeping elm. population. Arboricultural Curiosity. Ulmus glabra Hollymount, Rathmullan, Height: 2 m A beautiful, spreading, Genetic resource for local tree Wych Elm Co. Donegal Girth: 1.65 m weeping elm. population. This elm has a beautiful Exceptional Specimen Tree. Ulmus glabra Pink House, Rathmullan, Height: 13 m spreading crown. It is Genetic resource for local tree Wych Elm Co. Donegal Girth: 3.76 m hollowing and has many population. fungal brackets. Ulmus glabra Rossylongon, Donegal, Height: 17 m Exceptional Specimen Tree. This is an impressive elm in Wych Elm Co. Donegal Girth: 3.27 m Habitat value. deep woodland. Taxus baccata Castlegrove House Hotel, Height: 15 m Arboricultural Curiosity. This splendid layered yew has Yew Letterkenny, Co. Donegal Girth: 4.87 m Habitat value. many fused branches. St. Columba's Church, Exceptional Specimen Tree. Taxus baccata Height: 10 m Drumoghill, Letterkenny, Habitat value. Associated with a Beautiful location by church. Yew Girth: 3.08 m Co. Donegal historic structure. .
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