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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]
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 (Irish: Boireann, meaning 'Great rock', Boirinn is the modern form used by the Ordnance Survey) is a unique karst-landscape region in northwest County Clare, in 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 ...
The Burren Outdoor Education Centre is a particularly active partner of the geopark. Major accommodation providers are also engaged, with a network of local hospitality providers, hotels, bed-and-breakfast establishments and at least one retreat centre.
County Clare contains The Burren, a unique karst region, which contains rare flowers and fauna. At the western edge of The Burren, facing the Atlantic Ocean, are the Cliffs of Moher. The highest point in County Clare is Moylussa, 532 m (1,745 ft), in the Slieve Bernagh [a] range in the east of the county.
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 ...
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