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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 54. Chapters: Important Bird Areas of the Republic of Ireland, Special Areas of Conservation in the Republic of Ireland, World Heritage Sites in the Republic of Ireland, Glenveagh, Killarney National Park, Aran Islands, List of Special Areas of Conservation in the Republic of Ireland, Newgrange, Fanad, Skellig Michael, Cork Harbour, Development and preservation in Dublin, Knowth, Inishtrahull Island, Cliffs of Moher, Lough Corrib, Carlingford Lough, Dunfanaghy, Bru na Boinne, Bilberry goat, Dowth, Dingle Peninsula, An Taisce, Ireland's Eye, Ballycroy National Park, Lough Ennell, Dublin Bay, Beara Peninsula, Booterstown marsh, Howth Head, Blasket Islands, Lough Gara, Lough Ree, Croaghaun, Tree Council of Ireland, Inishmurray, Slievemore, Erris Head, Lough Owel, Lough Gill, Irish Peatland Conservation Council, Gurteen Beach, Coole Park, Lough Sheelin, Kilmuckridge-Tinnaberna Sandhills, St. Gobnet's Wood, Monknewton, Puffin Island, Townleyhall passage grave, Cloonee and Inchiquin Loughs, Uragh Wood, Barna Woods, Newgrange cursus, Aughris, Blackwater River, Lough Yganavan and Lough Nambrackdarrig. Excerpt: Killarney National Park (Irish: ) is located beside the town of Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland. It was the first national park established in Ireland, created when Muckross Estate was donated to the Irish state in 1932. The park has since been substantially expanded and encompasses over 102.89 km (25,425 acres) of diverse ecology, including the Lakes of Killarney, Oak and Yew woodlands of international importance, and mountain peaks. It has Ireland's only native herd of Red Deer and the most extensive covering of native forest remaining in Ireland. The park is of high ecological value because of the quality, diversity, and extensiveness of many of its habitats and the wide variety of species that they accommodate, some of which a...
