Plan to save ancient Cork river forest flooded 60 years ago for dams

The ESB, Cork County Council, Inland Fisheries Ireland, and the National Parks and Wildlife Service, have been meeting to devise a plan to possibly save an ancient river forest that was flooded 60 years ago.

The Gearagh, near Macroom, Co Cork, is one of four inland forest deltas in the world and is widely described as the most ecologically intact.

The land was controversially flooded by the ESB in the 1950s to make way for hydroelectric dams at Macroom and Inniscarra.