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THE
BURREN

 

The Burren is a limestone plateau in Co. Clare. This gallery illustrates the diversity of this area
through its landscapes, flowers, shapes of the rocks and archeology.

 

burren landscape

Stony landscape

 

burren rock

the rocks in the Burren have been carved by rainwater into some unusual shapes

 

dry-stone wall

section of dry-stone wall

 

burren flower spring gentian

Spring gentian (gentiana verna) - more flowers

 

burren flower orchid

Early purple orchid (orchis mascula) - more flowers

 

burren flower violet

Common dog-violet (viola riviniana)- more flowers

 

Poulnabrone

Poulnabrone Megalithic Tomb (dolmen)

 

burren panorama

Panorama of the Burren (more panoramas here)

 

macro snail shell

Macro of the shell of a snail

 


top
all Ireland galleries:
Cork city
Cork gigs
near Cork
south-coast
west-Cork
Limerick
The Burren
Kerry
Tipperary
Connemara
Co. Clare
Donegal
Dublin and around
Mayo
Galway

 

Photos Copyright D. LeGourrierec 2006
No photo to be used without my agreement


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