The Paradox of The Burren

The Lessons of the Landscape

Burren Winterage Cattle Drive of Wagyus on the farm of Frank McCormack

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…