The Marlay Park Cedar of Lebanon

In 2009 a survey for the Tree Council of Ireland rated this cedar of Lebanon an exceptional specimen tree and gave it an age of 150 to 200 years. That puts its planting somewhere between about 1810 and 1860, and it is close to everything on record about it. The heritage register adds one more detail. It lists the cedar as a maiden, the surveyors' word for a tree that has never been coppiced or pollarded. No girth or height came with the record, no photograph of it has been published, and no other written account mentions a cedar in Marlay Park at all. Whether it still stands has not been confirmed since that survey. A wildlife record was logged near the register's point in May 2026, which shows someone was looking at plants there, but not which plant. We think it still stands, but nobody has said so in print. The park is free, run by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, and the 16 bus serves it directly. Our pin is the register's grid reference converted to a map, so it can sit some distance from the trunk. Look around the marker for an evergreen with its needles in tight tufts. Marlay's other old tree on our map, a yew of several stems, stands about half a kilometre to the north. If you find the cedar, send us a photograph and tell us how big it is. Nobody has published either.