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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]
Although not the largest, it is the best known of the approximately 172 dolmens in Ireland. It was constructed on a unique karst landscape formed from limestone laid down around 350 million years ago. The dolmen was built by Neolithic farmers, who chose the location either for ritual, as a territorial marker, or as a collective burial site.
Caherconnell (Irish: Cathair Chonaill, meaning 'Conall's stone ringfort') [1] is an exceptionally well-preserved medieval stone ringfort in region known as the Burren, County Clare, Ireland. It lies about 1 km south of the Poulnabrone dolmen.
Gregans Castle is the name applied to both a 15th-century tower house and a Georgian-style house in the Burren region of County Clare, Ireland, near the village of Ballyvaughan. The latter dates from 1750 and is associated with the Martyn and O'Lochlainn (or O'Loughlen) families. The tower house is across the road from the modern house, which ...
Cashlaungar is located in the centre of The Burren, 2.7 km (1.8 miles) south of Carran, overlooking the Kilnaboy–Carran road to the west. It lies at an elevation of 116 m (381 ft). It lies at an elevation of 116 m (381 ft).
Excavations have shown that this ancient ringfort may have been erected on the site of an even older, Neolithic or Bronze Age-era site. The ringfort is also the location of the Burren's leading Sheepdog demonstration. [51] Caherminnaun Castle Caherminnaun, Kilfenora: Castle ruin: A ruin where in 1591 Murrogh O'Brien, the Lord of Caherminnaun, died.