The private 280 acres extends up
to the Cork/Kerry border on top of the Esk mountain, providing
both forest, native woodland, wetland and mountain habitat for
plants and wildlife. Wild deer and 40 grazing sheep help to
keep the grass vegetation down.
Brown trout, otters and frogs
enjoy the rivers. Foxes, badgers, stoat and mink lurk after
dark, when bats also swoop around, and deer appear in the
forest. Butterflies and dragonflies flutter, songbirds are
nesting and bird of prey hovering.
Wild flowers, including orchids
abound. A rich variety of heathers, ferns, mosses and grasses,
including Cottongrass, carpet the slopes. They provide
abundant colour and texture all year round to the mountains;
natures ultimate art work.
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