The Burren

In the Burren region of northwest County Clare, the landscape is dominated by large, flat areas of exposed limestone, the result of ancient glaciation and past farmland deforestation. In places, deep fissures in the surface rock connect to underground caves and rivers. A scattering of megalithic tombs suggest that the area was fertile in past times, but the stark recent landscape can be neatly captured by the following quote : " .......... this Barony 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 part to bury him. This consists of one entire rock with here and there a little surface of Earth ....... The Journal of Thomas Dineley, 1681."

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• Ireland
• County Clare
• The Burren
• Poulnabrone Portal Tomb