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Castanea sativa


Sweet/Spanish Chestnut



Rossanna, Ashford, Co. Wicklow


Situation: Individual Tree
Planting date: 1718
Visited and photographed on: 11-Aug-09
Height: 19 m Girth: 10.78 m

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The 'John Wesley Tree'; he is believed to have preached under this tree in 1788; the greatest girth for a broadleaf tree in Ireland.