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Landscape of the Burren, County Clare

The Burren

The Burren is a vast limestone upland, a karst landscape, in County Clare. Overspreading a hundred square miles, it is enclosed roughly within the circle made by the villages of Ballyvaughan, Kinvara, Tubber, Corofin, Kilfenora and Lisdoonvarna. The name "Burren" from the Irish Boireann, meaning "great rock".

This is an unearthly place; miles of bare rock, riven with cracks in which meadow grass grows. Cromwell's general wrote: "The Burren affordeth not a piece of timber sufficient to hang a man, water in any one place to drown a man, or earth enough in any one part to bury him", yet it has natural riches and is today a national park. (Read more)