Ireland - Burren

The Burren region is an outstanding example of the continuous settlement and use of a very challenging environment - this glaciated karst landscape of the Burren - for over 6,000 years. Over this time humans have interacted with this unique environment, primarily as pastoral farmers, to yield a rich legacy of natural and cultural heritage. The fruits of this relationship include an exceptionally diverse, representative and intact archaeological record, a celebrated flora with some intriguing floristic combinations, and a set of distinctive land-management traditions, particularly the reverse-transhumance winterage tradition.

Multiview of Burren - Lemenagh Castle, Corkscrew Hill, wild flowers and Poulnabrone Dolmen. Thanks to Dee of Ireland.