Burren
The Burren (in Gaelic Year Bhoireann , " the country pierreux") is a desert plate of Karst located at the western north of the Comté of Clare, in Ireland. This whole of sedimentary rocks makes approximately 300 km ² in a zone ranging between the towns of Ballyvaughan, Kinvarra, Gort, Corrofin, Kilfenora and Lisdoonvarna.
This plate is composed of Calcaire S Carbonifère S tabular which forms a Lapiaz (cracks and cracks rock due to the streaming of rainwater and the gélifraction) often regular, almost geometrical.
This area sees developing coast beside the Mediterranean and alpine plant species. The flower symbol of Burren is the blue Gentiane besides, a plant which one generally finds in the the Alps. (Small wink. In Switzerland, Burren exists as a family name, often of Bernese origin…)
Burren is rich in archeological sites. One finds there many sites megalithic, (of which some dolmens, like that of Poulnabrone) and very old forts such as that of Cahercommaun built at the 9th century on three concentric rings.
The little story wants that one made of it this description with Cromwell: “Not enough of water to drown a man, not enough wood to hang it, not enough ground to bury it. ”
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