The Woodland Trust cares for 53 woods in Northern Ireland, that’s 325 hectares (803 acres) of woodland. These woods are distributed fairly evenly throughout the Province, from Kilcooley Wood in Bangor to the east, to the Burn Walk in Strabane to the west.
The woods vary in nature, from recently planted woods to mature woodland and ancient woodland (that’s woodland dating back as far as 1600).
The smallest, Carrowood at Carrowdore in County Down, is only 0.45 hectares (1 acre), while at Carnmoney Hill in Newtownabbey the Trust cares for 70 hectares (172 acres) of land. Here we have planted over 57,000 native trees, making this one of the largest native woodland creation projects in Northern Ireland.
