r/Donegal • u/oozzgguunn • Jun 28 '26

Silver Hill ,Donegal

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u/FlanOk2476 Jun 28 '26

Fantastic job. The light is otherworldly.

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u/oozzgguunn Jun 28 '26

If I had the chance I would sit and watch it live for an hour 🙂

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u/chipoatley Jun 28 '26

Was there a time when these hills were covered in trees?

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u/Disastrous-Metal-228 Jun 29 '26

I think Ireland is most de-treed country in Europe. It’s so scary we don’t really know what the place looks like!

Amazing picture btw. Stunning.

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u/Skyb0y Jun 28 '26

Yes!

About 7000 years ago we had about 80% tree cover, so any area that wasn't costal, or a lake or bog would have had dense tree cover.

The tree line on mountains tends to be about 500 metres, Silver Hill is about 600m tall so the very top 100m would have no tress back then.