Discover a hidden away rainforest on the Beara peninsula

Hidden away on the Beara peninsula is one of our last remaining rainforests, discovers Carl Dixon.

For most of us, rainforest conjures up images of the impenetrable jungles of the tropics with snakes, mosquitoes and stifling humidity. Less well known is temperate rainforest, which once dominated the western seaboard of Ireland and which now only exists as isolated fragments.

It is one of these woodland fragments, hidden away on the Beara peninsula, that amateur ecologist Eoghan Daltun is developing as a visitor attraction.