The Burren
The Burren is a distinctive limestone landscape and national park in County Clare on Ireland’s Atlantic coast. The recent release of Street View images from Ireland allow us to get a close-up look at the beauty of this barren scenery1. Technically one of Europe’s largest karst landscapes – rock features formed by the action of water – the region is dominated by elevated limestone pavements and domes and stark rocky plateaus. Even the lower fields are more rock than soil and grass, unless the rocks have been painstakingly cleared and used in dry stone walls. There are numerous…