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Canadian Forestry Journal, June, 1917 



State Forestry in Ireland 



By H. R. MacMillan 



Ireland, alone of the four divisions 

 ■of the United Kingdom, has made 

 an organized beginning in State de- 

 velopment of forestry. That this 

 should be so is one of the fruits of the 

 remedial land legislation of the last 

 two decades. Mainly through the 

 exertions of Sir Horace Plunkett and 

 the movement for better use of the 

 land, which he initiated and to which 

 he lent such steady support, an Act 

 was passed in 1899 creating for Ire- 

 land a Department of Agriculture 

 and Technical Instruction, charged 

 with the supervision of matters so 

 unrelated as agriculture, forestry, 

 technical instruction, fisheries and 

 light houses. 



Previous to the passing of this Act, 

 Ireland had become the most dis- 

 tinctly agricultural portion of the 

 United Kingdom. The area of wood- 

 land was steadily decreasing, and 

 though there was a certain amount of 

 tree planting by private owners, 

 chiefly for shelter or beauty, there 

 were practically no well managed 

 woodlands. The land area of the 

 island was, according to use, roughly 

 •divided as follows: 



Acres 

 Use for agriculture (crops and 



pasture) 15,250,000 



Mountain land 2,208,000 



Peat, bog and marsh 1,575,000 



Woods : 304,863 



Water, roads, fences 1,033,000 



The cultivated land was broken 

 into very small holdings, averaging 



25 to 30 acres each. The mountain 

 land, which, according to many writ- 

 ers dealing with forestry in the British 

 Isles, and according to the reports 

 issued by various Commissions con- 

 sidering the subject, is the land most 

 readily adaptable for forest purposes, . 

 could not be taken unreservedlv as 



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