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Hungry Tree

William Murphy · CC BY-SA 2.0

16% trees around it and 393 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km16%
  • wild within 10 km53%
  • species recorded393

The forest around

16% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 4%Grassland 4%Water 3%Bare ground 0%Built-up 89%Trees 18%Grassland 10%Water 2%Built-up 71%Trees 23%Grassland 19%Water 6%Cropland 0%Built-up 52%Trees 17%Grassland 26%Wetland 0%Water 15%Bare ground 1%Cropland 6%Built-up 35%16%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km4%
  • 1–3 km18%
  • 3–6 km23%
  • 6–10 km17%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees18%
  • Grassland10%
  • Water2%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up71%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

393 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Ivy-leaved Toadflax
Ivy-leaved ToadflaxCymbalaria muralis76 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Groundsel
GroundselSenecio vulgaris53 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Little mouse-ear chickweed
Little mouse-ear chickweedStellaria media48 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Butterfly-bush
Butterfly-bushBuddleja davidii46 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Herb-robert
Herb-robertGeranium robertianum33 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Radium weed
Radium weedEuphorbia peplus29 recordsSteve1nova · Public domain
Spreading pellitory
Spreading pellitoryParietaria judaica29 recordsFranco Folini · CC BY 2.5
Japanese Knotweed
Japanese KnotweedReynoutria japonica28 recordsW.carter · CC0
Smooth sow-thistle
Smooth sow-thistleSonchus oleraceus27 recordsT.Voekler · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wall-rue
Wall-rueAsplenium ruta-muraria25 recordsCarl Axel Magnus Lindman · Public domain
Eastern rocket
Eastern rocketSisymbrium orientale21 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hedgemustard
HedgemustardSisymbrium officinale21 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

34out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 16%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 53%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 393Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking from July to August.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan8°4°86 mm
  2. Feb8°4°70 mm
  3. Mar9°4°70 mm
  4. Apr11°6°61 mm
  5. May14°8°67 mm
  6. Jun16°11°76 mm
  7. Jul18°12°80 mm
  8. Aug18°12°91 mm
  9. Sep16°11°76 mm
  10. Oct13°9°102 mm
  11. Nov10°7°106 mm
  12. Dec8°5°97 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Hungry Tree.

Tree in Dublin, Ireland

Hungry Tree is a notable tree in Ireland.

Seen from space, 16% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 53% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

393 species have been recorded around it: 241 plants, 19 fungi, 125 birds and 8 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Ivy-leaved Toadflax, Groundsel and Little mouse-ear chickweed.

The best time to walk is from July to August.

Hungry Tree at King’s Inns, Dublin-17565181402
William Murphy · CC BY-SA 2.0

Get there and walk

  • Camac Valley Tourist Caravan & Camping Parkcampsite · 11 km · 1 within 10 km
  • Stay City Dublinplace to stay · 0.7 km · 382 within 10 km
  • Cabranearest town · 2.2 km in a straight line
  • Dublin Airport (DUB)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 9 km in a straight lineCar hire at DUB airport (Dublin)Discover Cars · sponsored link

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Hungry Tree seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 4marked trails within 5 kmEuropean long distance path E8 - part Ireland, The Royal Canal Way, Icon Walk and 1 more
  • 39named and notable trees within 6 kmChestnut, Lime, Ash and 36 more
  • 113picnic sites within 4 kmToni's and 112 more
  • 180shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 8viewpoints within 5 kmFormer swimming area and 7 more
  • 13visitor centres within 6 kmDiscover Ireland Centre, Tourism Office, Tourist Office Dublin and 10 more
  • 906car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmCamac Valley Tourist Caravan & Camping Park
  • 382places to stay within 10 kmStay City Dublin, Clifton Court Hotel, Ashling Hotel and 379 more
  • 1,096restaurants and cafés within 3 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Hungry Tree.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas45 mountains within 25 km
Two Rock536 m · 13 kmSeefingan724 m · 19 kmKippure757 m · 20 kmTonduff642 m · 21 kmMaulin570 m · 22 kmGreat Sugar Loaf501 m · 24 kmWar Hill686 m · 25 kmDjouce725 m · 25 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Wheel of Dublin3.1 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Liffey125 km · 14 m³/sRiver Dodder26 kmRiver Tolka30 kmCamacSantry RiverNanikenOwendoher River

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Hungry tree, Dublin
Sheila1988 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hungry Tree at King’s Inns, Dublin-12930574313
William Murphy · CC BY-SA 2.0
Eingewachsene Parkbank am The King's Inn - panoramio (1)
Ralf Houven · CC BY 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Hungry Tree

Ireland

  • 34Forestyas Score
  • 16%Trees
  • 53%Wild
  • 393Species

National Botanic Gardens

Ireland · 2 km

  • 38Forestyas Score
  • 21%Trees
  • 52%Wild
  • 367Species

See the guide

Tollymore Forest Park

United Kingdom · 99 km

  • 62Forestyas Score
  • 29%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 1,330Species

See the guide

Gwydir Forest

United Kingdom · 165 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 65%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 1,334Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q56867887) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species17,058 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Islandyas, Coastya, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Birdyas, Riveryas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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