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Ok gosford was pretty well documented a decade ago but still found some new trees and updated the older ones.

At the car park an unmeasured Doug fir 48m tall, just at the start of the path a huge hidden oak tree (girth was recorded but not height) 33m one of the tallest oaks measured in Ireland.

Then I went to the castle entrance lane way at the far end of the arboretum, the recorded coast redwood (33m in 2000 looked huge in 2009, but then smaller after) I found to have lost its main leader meaning its only grown to 36m tall, further down the lane wag I found 3 giant sequoia pushing 38m tall

Ok now the arboretum, my first though was these trees aren’t as tall as I expected due to the surr

First Montalto some nice trees but the two redwoods near the house are the standout, the girth champion stands 44.5m tall but its neighbour a beautiful twin stem is just under 48m tall (tallest outside of Caledon to my knowledge(, the tallest tree I measured at the time…

https://www.monumentaltrees.com/en/gbr/northernireland/down/38897\_montaltoestate/

Then tollymore, the hunt initially started with disappointment in the arboretum, some great trees but shorter than my estimates. Trees here are girthier and shorter than normal clearly caused by high wind exposure. Still a new coast redwood found with a few young ones planted too. Some great oak trees and eucalyptus there too but did not get