Sherwood Harrington |
The Slieve Bloom Mountains, southeast of Birr.
Ireland's forests disappeared to varying degrees starting with the early CE
invasions of the Vikings and Normans, and the island was pretty well denuded of
trees by the mid-1800's, in the aftermath of the famine. Reforestation is
aggressively under way now, though, as manifested by this view from the middle
of the Slieve Bloom mountains.