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Burren National Park (Irish: Páirc Náisiúnta Bhoirne) [2] is one of eight national parks in Ireland managed by the National Parks and Wildlife Service. It covers a small part of the Burren, a karst landscape in County Clare on the west coast. [3] [4] [5] Burren National Park was founded and opened to the public in 1991. [6]
The Burren (/ ˈ b ʌr ə n / BURR-ən; Irish: Boirinn, meaning 'rocky district') [1] is a karst/glaciokarst landscape centred in County Clare, on the west coast of Ireland. [2] It measures around 530 square kilometres (200 sq mi), within the circle made by the villages of Lisdoonvarna, Corofin, Gort and Kinvara. [3]
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The geopark began as a mid-2000s project of Clare County Council and the local community, the "Environmental Protection of the Burren through Visitor Management Initiative", which was funded and supported by the council, Fáilte Ireland, Shannon Development, the National Parks and Wildlife Service and the Burrenbeo Trust. The initiative evolved ...
The Burren Boirinn: County Clare: 15 km 2 (5.8 sq mi) 1991 [2] Wicklow Mountains Sléibhte Chill Mhantáin: County Wicklow: 205 km 2 (79 sq mi) [3] 1991 Wild Nephin Néifinn Fhiáin: County Mayo: 150 km 2 (58 sq mi) 1998 [4] Boyne Valley (Brú na Bóinne) National Park Brú na Bóinne: County Meath: 2.2 km 2 (0.85 sq mi) 2023 Páirc Náisiúnta ...
In 2012, the Irish National Parks and Wildlife Service lodged a planning application with Clare County Council for a 27 space car park on the site of the overflow car park of the original interpretative centre. This is supposed to reduce parking on road verges and improve access to the park, where recently five walking trails have been developed.
Burren can refer to: The Burren, an area dominated by karst landscape, in County Clare, Ireland; Burren National Park, the national park in County Clare, Ireland; Burren (barony), an historical administrative division of County Clare, Ireland; Burren (townland), a townland in County Cavan, Ireland; Burren, County Down, a village in Northern Ireland
'Hole of the Quernstone' [2]) is a large dolmen (or cromlech, [3] a type of single-chamber portal tomb) located in the Burren, County Clare, Ireland. Situated on one of the region's most desolate and highest points, it comprises three standing portal stones supporting a heavy horizontal capstone and dates to the early Neolithic period, with ...