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Sunday 9th March to Sunday 16th March

'Planting Trees, Growing Together'

National Tree Week, Ireland’s largest annual tree celebration, is proudly organised by the Tree Council of Ireland in partnership with Coillte. This special week invites communities across the nation to come together to appreciate the beauty and crucial importance of Ireland’s trees. To support this initiative, Coillte is supplying sapling trees to County Councils for distribution to communities nationwide.

If you’re planning a National Tree Week community event and would like to receive trees for planting, please contact your local County Council for more details.

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In Conversation with Aubrey Fennell

Tree Register of Ireland

Marking National Tree Week, Aubrey offers a brief insight into his 2024 work with the Tree Council, where he recorded nearly 3,000 trees in an effort to update the Tree Register of Ireland.

With sufficient funding, we hope he can continue this vital work and update records for all 10,000 trees on the Register.

Impact

Measuring Success Through Our Achievements

150,000

TREES DONATED ANNUALLY

Every year 150,000 trees are donated to communities in Ireland in partnership with Coillte

1M

TREES PLANTED

Since its inception in 1985, during National Tree Week, Coillte and the Tree Council of Ireland have been responsible for planting over one million native trees in Ireland.

2,500

TONNES OF CARBON

Fully matured, 1 million native trees can absorb 2,500 tonnes of carbon per year offsetting the emissions of more than 550 cars.

Largest Tree Celebration Event

IN IRELAND

A unique opportunity for communities to come together and recognise the importance of Ireland's trees.

Fun Fact

Trees are part of our very identity. We are all familiar with being addressed at public events as “A Chairde Gaeil” but did you know that the Irish word for an Irish person – Gael - comes from the Welsh language Goídil. It means a person who lives in a wood!

So long ago, the Welsh people looking the 60 miles across the Irish Sea at a heavily wooded Ireland realised that we must all live in the woods. It was they who first referred to us as “A Chairde Gaeil”. Our connection with trees is as old as the Irish language itself, which is around 2,500 years old!