Experts aren’t sure which tree is the oldest in Ireland. Wexford-based archaeologist Colm Moriarty thinks it might be the Silken Thomas yew in Co Maynooth, which is about 800 years old.

It is preserved with religious veneration by the peasantry. One of the most famous ancient trees in Ireland is the Muckross Friary Yew which stands in the center of the cloisters of the ruined ...

Those whose research is limited to herbaria may come to the opposite conclusion. The Yew-Trees of Great Britain and Ireland. By John Lowe, &c. Pp. xiv + 270. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1897.) ...

like the ancient yew tree my family saw growing outside the walls of a ruined castle. I was not, however, prepared for the Irish palm trees. We observed suspiciously tropical-looking specimens ...

Rush, or Rós Eó in Irish, translates as the Peninsula of the Yew Trees and is a small seaside town on the coast of north County Dublin. Often overshadowed by neighboring towns such as Skerries ...