17/09/2026
🎂🥾250th Anniversary of ‘Arthur Young’s Walk’🎂🥾
Muckross Peninsula
📖 Arthur Young (1741–1820) was an influential English Writer, Agriculturist, and the First Secretary of the British Board of Agriculture.
🎩 He visited the Herberts of Muckross Estate in September 1776, as research for his acclaimed best seller ‘ A Tour Of Ireland’.
🌳 While staying with the influential Landlord family for four nights, he took a walk around the Muckross Peninsula. So mesmerised by the landscape and natural beauty of the Peninsula, he explored the magnificent native Oak Woods, the rare Reenadinna Yew Wood, its limestone formations and rare flora.
💼 His glowing writings about the Muckross walk were honoured by establishing ‘Arthur Young Walk’ on the 27 September 1776.
🦸♀️ GUIDE: Shonagh Gray, Conservation Ranger NPWS and Raconteur Extraordinaire
📞Contact Shonagh: What’s App/Text 085 8359484 or email: [email protected]
• DATE: Sunday 27 September
• TIME: 10.30 am
• Meeting point: Outside the Garden Restaurant Muckross
• Duration: 2 - 2.5 hrs
• FREE Just get in touch with Shonagh
🥾 •Arthur Young Walk is clearly marked. Should you wish to take the trail in your own time.
🥾 It begins to the right of Muckross Lake about 200 metres from Muckross House and follows a route along Muckross Peninsula between Lough Leane and Muckross Lake. Extensive Yew Woods at Reenadinna - which have varied carpets of mosses and liverworts underneath.
🌳 There are also many fine specimens of oak, arbutus and holly trees. It is a special area of conservation. Arthur Young (1741-1820) was widely regarded by his contemporaries as the leading agricultural writer of the time.
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