Re: Lack Of Trees In Irish And British Countrysides

"Culchie Aspirant" <republican_remove_this_@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Mon, 12 May 2008 07:00:49 +0100, "allan connochie"
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>>"Féachadóir" <Féach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>That may be so but then again the more pastoral regions of Britain were 
>>just
>>as treeeless as anywhere else. My own area in the Southern Uplands of
>>Scotland for example! It may be as I said a matter of degree and you may
>>indeed be right in that 11thC or 16thC Ireland may have had a larger
>>fraction of its original forest intact, but what I was saying was that
>>surely this was only a fraction of what had been? Iron Age and first
>>millenium Ireland couldn't have been so much different from Britain - 
>>could
>>it?  I know it is only one poster sayig it but the idea that a huge 
>>primeval
>>forest covered Ireland until Elizabeth of England cut it down to build a

>>few
>>****ps to ward off the Armada sounds a bit off.
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> The building of the Spanish Armada itself deforested Spain and Spain
> is significantly larger than Ireland and Britain added together.

That would be a great point if it were true.........but it isn't!

Allan