Burren Lakes and Turloughs
The Burren is a karst limestone plateau measuring of 100 square miles in north County Clare, punctuated with lakes and seasonal lakes called turloughs. This delicate and unique environment is the result of Neolithic farmers over grazing the area during the stone age. Everything you could possibly want to know about the Burren can be found using the link below
After two days march, without anything remarkable but bad quarters, we entered into the barony of Burren, of which it is said, that it is a country where there is not water enough to drown a man, wood enough to hang one, nor earth enough to bury him. - Edmund Ludlow 1651.
So said one of Cromwells Generals...
The Burren is a unique environment, a karst limestone landscape of about one hundred square miles in north County Clare in the west of Ireland. The limestone was formed 360 million years ago and it became exposed by a combination of the stripping action of glaciers at the end of the last Ice Age and the overgrazing of prehistoric farmers. Consequently the area is of immense importance for geological, archaeological and botanical reasons, and is it a remarkably fertile environment for farming. Although much of the region appears dry there are several lakes which exist all year round. In winter, turloughs (dry lakes) appear suddenly as the water table rises due to increasing rainfall at that time of the year, and they usually disappear completely by early summer.
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Protecting the Burren
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The Burren
In the Burren region of northwest County Clare, the landscape is dominated by large, flat areas of exposed limestone, the result of ancient glaciation and past farmland deforestation. In places, deep fissures in the surface rock connect to underground caves and rivers. A scattering of megalithic tombs suggest that the area was fertile in past times, but the stark recent landscape can be neatly captured by the following quote : .......... this Barony affordeth not a piece of timber sufficient to hang a man, water in any one place to drown a man, or earth enough in any part to bury him. This consists of one entire rock with here and there a little surface of Earth ....... The Journal of Thomas Dineley, 1681.
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This video has been recorded on the west coast of Ireland in County Clare. The Burren, is the land we're presenting here, and this word comes from an Irish expression Boíreann meaning a rocky place. This is an extremely appropriate name when you consider the lack of soil cover and the extent of exposed Limestone Pavement. However it has been referred to in the past as Fertile rock due to the mixture of nutrient rich herb and floral species.
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