The Paradox of The Burren
The Lessons of the Landscape
A first glimpse of The Burren always provokes the same adjectival response: Barren. Lunar. Rock on rock.
Burren derives from the Irish term boireann: a rocky place. Well named, then.
These first impressions are understandable, but they are wrong, because the Burren is a place of paradox…
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