County Clare

The undulating Cliffs of Moher, the weird limestone landscape of the Burren, and the musical pubs of Ennis and Doolin

County Clare is known for the dramatically undulating Cliffs of Moher rising 650 feet above the sea, and for the Burren, where Alpine and Mediterranean flowers grow side by side the odd microclimates of rock fissures, and the weirdly eroded limestone landscape is scattered with ancient dolmens, overgrown churchyards, crumbling ring forts, and passage tombs.

The most photographed of these tombs, Poulnabrone Dolmen, is a prehistoric house-of-cards—sort of burial à la Flintstones (www.ancientireland.org/poulnabrone/index.htm).



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This article was last updated in September 2011. All information was accurate at the time.

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