Biggest Tree in Shannon Town Competition

 Biggest Tree in Shannon Town Competition

For Biodiversity Week 2023 (starting Friday 19th May to Sunday 28th May) we invite everybody to take part in a competition to find the largest tree in Shannon Town

Take a measurement around the trunk and e-mail it to snntt57@gmail.com with your name, photos and location (please include the word TREE in the subject) and we will look through all the entries and announce the winner on Mon 29th May.

The winner will receive a 20 euro gift token for the plants/vegetables.

Extra marks for estimating the height of the tree and giving its species. Please share your calculations!

Have fun!

For example, there's an ash (with die-back) in Tola Park which has a girth of 53 inches.

Using GoogleMaps.com I can get its exact location 52.70950035609362, -8.88621850576728 (just right click on it)

Then using a tape measure I get its girth (53" or 135 cm)

Then for the craic using my arm as a home made sextant I can get it's height..

Since from 108 meters away (measured using Google Maps) it is 3 cm at my arm's length (60cm)

So if 3 cm at 60 cm it will be X m at 108 m! (X equals (3/60) * 108 m) => 5.4 m (very roughly :)  in height