Presentation on the Burren!

The Burren is a fun place… so lets get to know it!

Landscape

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Burren - Boireann – Place of Stone

Clints

Glacial Erratic

Turlough Turlough

6,000 years ago in the Burren …

Built Heritage (9,000 BP – 1500 BP)

A ‘Court Tomb’

Wedge Tomb

Fulacht Fiadh (Bronze Age)

Stone Fort or Caher

Cahercommaun Stone Fort

Tower House or Castle

True or False…..

 Tower houses had lifts to get people to the top…..  There were TV’s in Stone Forts……  The people that built Poulnabrone farmed cattle….  There are Tombs called ‘Chip Tombs’…..  People made their clothes from animal skins….  People wore jewellery….  All the children had X-boxes…..

Burren fauna

Common lizard

Slow worm

Burren flora

Spring gentians

Fly orchid and Bee orchid

Butterwort

Burren Farming

Sheep puicket

Shelter wall

Goat cro

Burren Food

Burren Culture and Community

The legend of the Bo Glas Ghaibhneach

St. Colman

Maire Rua

Music, dancing, story telling and writing…..