Uragh Wood (
Irish: ''Tearmann Dúlra Choill na hIúraí'') is wood in
Tuosist
Tuosist () is a civil parish in the far south of County Kerry, Ireland. It shares the Béara Peninsula with the neighbouring parishes of County Cork, and the Caha Mountains form the county border. The nearest town is Kenmare. The parish i ...
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County Kerry
County Kerry ( gle, Contae Chiarraí) is a county in Ireland. It is located in the South-West Region and forms part of the province of Munster. It is named after the Ciarraige who lived in part of the present county. The population of the co ...
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Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...
, which was designated a nature reserve in 1982. The wood is largely
sessile oak
''Quercus petraea'', commonly known as the sessile oak, Cornish oak, Irish Oak or durmast oak, is a species of oak tree native to most of Europe and into Anatolia and Iran. The sessile oak is the national tree of Ireland, and an unofficial embl ...
and covers 87
ha. It is owned by the state.
Since Ireland's adoption of the European Union's
Habitats Directive, the wood has been included within a
Special Area of Conservation of 1,154 ha called "
Cloonee and Inchiquin Loughs, Uragh Wood" (Inchiquin
being the lake next to the wood).
Cloonee and Inchiquin Loughs, Uragh Wood SAC
National Parks and Wildlife Service.
Flora and fauna
Fauna includes:
* The Kerry Slug
The Kerry slug or Kerry spotted slug (''Geomalacus maculosus'') is a species of terrestrial, pulmonate, gastropod mollusc. It is a medium-to-large sized, air-breathing land slug in the family of roundback slugs, Arionidae.
Adult Kerry slu ...
(listed in annexes II and IV of the Habitats Directive)
* The Lesser horseshoe bat (listed in annex II of the Habitats Directive)
The wood is internationally important for its suite of
hyper-oceanic woodland bryophytes.
Access
There is no public access.
See also
* Uragh Stone Circle
References
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Forests and woodlands of the Republic of Ireland
Nature reserves in the Republic of Ireland
Protected areas established in 1982
1982 establishments in Ireland