national parks burren

The word Burren derives its name from Boireann, which means 'rocky land' in Gaelic - an apt name for this vast limestone plateau in northwest County Clare.
In the 1640's Cromwell's surveyor described it as 'a savage land, yielding neither water enough to drown a man nor tree to hang him, nor soil enough to bury'.
Few trees manage to grow in this desolate place, yet other plants thrive. The Burren is a unique botanical environment in which Mediterranean and alpine...