United Kingdom forest
Tollymore Forest Park
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29% trees around it and 1,330 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km29%
- wild within 10 km96%
- species recorded1,330
- Altitude52 m
The forest around
29% 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, ring by ring
- 0–1 km50%
- 1–3 km27%
- 3–6 km8%
- 6–10 km6%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees27%
- Grassland55%
- Water9%
- Cropland3%
- Built-up7%
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
1,330 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
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Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.
In numbers
The forest, measured.
Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).
- 29%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 96%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 1,330Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
- 52 mAltitudeabove the sea
When to walk
Best for walking from July to September.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan6°98 mm
- Feb6°78 mm
- Mar6°77 mm
- Apr7°61 mm
- May9°67 mm
- Jun12°77 mm
- Jul13°78 mm
- Aug14°94 mm
- Sep13°82 mm
- Oct11°112 mm
- Nov9°114 mm
- Dec7°106 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Tollymore Forest Park.
Park in the United Kingdom
Tollymore Forest Park is a forest in United Kingdom.
Seen from space, 29% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 96% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
1,330 species have been recorded around it: 751 plants, 413 fungi, 141 birds and 25 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Heather-bell, Woodland germander and Sweet vernal grass.
The best time to walk is from July to September.
Get there and walk
- 1st Newcastle Scouts Camp Sitecampsite · 0.7 km · 20 within 10 km
- Hotel Enniskeenplace to stay · 0.6 km · 28 within 10 km
- Newcastlenearest town · 1.8 km in a straight line
- George Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 45 km in a straight lineCar hire at BHD airport (Belfast)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.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 58marked trails within 5 kmMourne Way, Ulster Way, Lecale Way and 55 more
- 75picnic sites within 4 kmDundrum Inner Bay and 74 more
- 35shelters and huts within 6 kmSlieve Meelmore Shelter and 34 more
- 16viewpoints within 5 kmSalmon Leap, Curraghard, The Drinns and 13 more
- 2visitor centres within 6 kmNewcastle Tourist Information Centre
- 114car parks within 3 km
- 20campsites within 10 km1st Newcastle Scouts Camp Site, Tollymore Forest, Sunnyholme Caravan Park and 17 more
- 28places to stay within 10 kmHotel Enniskeen, Bonny's Caravan Park, Castlecorrigs House Bed and Breakfast and 25 more
- 23restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- named and notable trees within 6 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 Tollymore Forest Park.
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.
Peakyas15 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas5 lakes within 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soonFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The forest, as people saw it.
Other forests nearby.
Tollymore Forest Park
United Kingdom
- 62Forestyas Score
- 29%Trees
- 96%Wild
- 1,330Species
Tynwald National Park and Arboretum
Isle of Man · 83 km
- 61Forestyas Score
- 26%Trees
- 97%Wild
- 529Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q7814422) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 28,199 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Names and photos | Wikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Islandyas, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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