1: many trees where cut to build ships in defense against the Spanish, French, and whoever the Brits thought consituted a threat...
2: more where cut to provide grazing land for sheep.
3: whatever was left was burned by Sir Oliver Cromwell so that those Irish still alive and not sold as slaves in the Carribean couldn't heat there homes or hide in the bushes and fight back, hence the term to hell or conoughct (spelling...) note it didn't work...
The trucks are flat nosed and run short logs... with a loader in the middle.
*connaught*, close enough...yeah you've got the jist of it there with cromwell..but in saying that, these days it's the irish politicians themselves thats screwing ireland....anyway, back to timber