Stormont official said he was more worried about preventing the public from vandalising or burning tress than providing them with cups of tea or children’s swings Tollymore Forest Park as it is today Sceptical civil servants refused in the 1950s to approve many basic facilities which turned Tollymore into Northern Ireland’s first forest park because they didn’t believe it would be popular with the public, a declassified file reveals. Among papers opened at the Public Record Office in Belfast under the 20 year rule is a very old file from the 1950s which should have been declassified decades ago but may have been lost..
