Introducing the Fastigiate (or Irish) Yew.

Where was the FIRST Fastigiate Yew found?

The very first Fastigiate Yew was found in the mountains of Fermanagh (on the slopes of Cuilcagh) in 1767. A farmer, George Willis, found two unusual little seedlings, and he took one home, which he planted in his own garden. It lived until 1865. He gave the other one to the first Earl of Enniskillen, who was his landlord. The Earl, Lord Mount Florence, had the seedling planted on his estate, Florencecourt, County Fermanagh. It is still there now.

By the 1820s the Irish, or Fastigiate, Yew tree was being reproduced commercially. All Irish Yews throughout the world are believed to have come from the one at Florence Court. Florence Court ¦ Northern Ireland | National Trust ¦ Northern Ireland | National Trust.