Burren at Mullaghmore
Mullaghmore, which means Great Summit in Irish, is a mountain in the Burren near Kilnaboy (and Father Teds house). The Burren is a karst limestone plateau measuring of 100 square miles in north County Clare, of which it was once said:
...that it is a country where there is not water enough to drown a man, wood enough to hang one, nor earth enough to bury him.
I like this part of the Burren as the natural hazel scrub which once covered much of Ireland in the post-glacial period still exist and there is an excellent symbiosis between local farmers and the environment. Also, if you look closely at Mullaghmore you will notice its folded stratigraphy which was caused by tectonic forces. There is also a Turlough or dry lake at its foot, which appears and disappears depending on rainfall and the height of the water table. The light changes rapidly in Ireland and in this video you can see the changes brought on by a dark cloud of rain, sleet and hail which brought filming to a premature end. Mrs jratt2 also puts in an appearance...
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Mick Angelhere's World (The House of Father Ted & Kanturk Castle )
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Father Teds House is is located in County Clare in the middle of nowhere amongst a stunning countryside. The house is an organic farm
Father Ted is British sitcom which ran for three series from 1995 to 1998 and ended with the death of Dermot Morgan who played Father Ted from a heart attack.
Kanturk Castle is is a fortified house in the town of Kanturk in County Clare .
Built as a defence against English settlers it was four stories high with four towers that were five stories high.
It was said that the building was never completed when the Privy Council in England ordered MacDonagh McCarthy the owner to sop construction.
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County Clare & The Burren
Day 4: Wednesday June 8th
We got up a bit earlier than the previous day and headed for County Clare. Our mission today was to find the house in the Burren where they filmed Father Ted as well as the Cliffs of Moher. I had found directions to the house on the Internet and hoped they were right. We took a couple wrong turns but eventually found it! We were thrilled and stopped by the road to take pictures. A neighbor was working on a stone fence up the road and must have thought we were crazy... But I'm sure he's seen this before.
Apparently there is a family living there, and we didn't want to disturb them. So we turned around and headed back to a main road.
Next on the agenda was getting to the beautiful cliffs of Moher. And we did. The last time we were there the parking lot was close to the cliffs next to an adorable stone cottage that served as a gift shop. This time the parking lot was torn up and major construction was going on. There was a makeshift gift shop across the highway with a much larger parking area. The walk went over the hill past many cows next to the fence. Meri wanted several pictures of them. Thus coining Robb's famous quote of the day... We live in IOWA!! We don't need any more pictures of stinkin' cows! This only encouraged the kids to point them out for the remainder of the trip.
The walk was through construction, but came out of the edge of the cliffs to a gorgeous view. Ryan, Meri & I purchased the euro tickets to get to the top of O'Briens tower. There were clouds of gnats up there, so we didn't stay long. There was a free telescope. Ryan bought more Guinness items and the girls found some souvenirs as well. We took lots of pictures! Meri went to town taking pictures with the panoramic camera.
It was very warm on the cliffs that day. In fact the weather had been much warmer than we had anticipated and we were running out of summer clothes. Everyone's jackets were tied around their waists. We saw one man from Germany singing in German on the edge of the cliffs with a friend video taping him. Don't know what that was about.
I bought a cd from a young man who was playing guitar on the long sidewalk down the cliffs. Meri and Maddy found a couple dogs that belonged to a woman who played the accordian there as well. I let Maddy throw a Euro in her case when they were done playing with the dogs.
We then had a picnic lunch in the car in the car park there. Afterwards headed north through the Burren. The ground around us became very rocky. We stopped a couple times to let the kids run out on the rocks. It was like landing on the moon or being in another world. Some plants grew between the rocks, but not many. Totally weird landscape. We found another beach farther north and let the kids collect shells.
On the way back we took a wrong turn and ended up on one of the secondary narrow roads again. Oops! Oh well, Clare county is beautiful and you see it up close and personal on those roads. We then made our way back to Bruree. Maddy and I drove into Kilmallock (6 miles away) for some take-away (take out). We turned down a one way street, but some helpful Irish boys helped us get turned back around. We brought back some chicken and chips (French fries). Not Kentucky Fried, but it was very good.
Meri discovered snails all around the Mill and started collecting them. She was determined to take her new pets home, but we convinced her that the officials at the airport would confiscate them. So she let them go every night. But that morning, she had quite a collection. Kludo, the puppy from downstairs had become Meri's best friend as well and came up to see if we had any treats. Maddy had some leftover chips from the plane and was giving them to Kludo. Kludo saw the snails and took off with one, thinking it was a chip. We heard him crunching it behind the flower bushes and Meri flipped out! Crisis!!!
burren outdoor education centre
Some pictures of a variety of activities available in the Burren area of county clare in Ireland
Touring Ireland 2016
2 weeks, 22 Counties (Dublin, Meath, Louth, Armagh, Down, Antrim, Derry, Donegal, Sligo, Roscommon, Leitrim, Mayo, Galway, Clare, Limerick, Kerry, Cork, Waterford, Wexford, Kilkenny, Carlow, Wicklow), 2,240kms, 7 Cities,3 travel buddies and a Nissan pulsar and we hit the road for one hell of a trip around the coast of Ireland!
Temple Bar, Titanic Experience Belfast, Belfast City, The Dark Hedges, Carrick-a-Rede, Giants Causeway, Carndonagh, The Famine Village, Derry Wall, The Wild Atlantic Way, Westport, The Twelve Pins, Connemara National Park, The Burren, Galway City, Alliwee Caves, Beehive Huts, Cliffs of Moher, Father Teds House, Dingle, Killarney, Kinsale, Tralee, Cobh, Cork City, Titanic Experience Cobh, Charles Fort, Kilkenny City, Kilkenny Castle, The Dolmen, Guinness Storehouse, The Viking Tour, Glendalough, The Glen, Sally Gap, The Wicklow Mountains, Trinity College, Grafton Street, Blarney Castle, The Blarney Stone, kylemore Abbey and Victoria Square.
Burren to Shannon Co Clare Ireland 2014
Kilfenora 12th Century Cathedral and High Crosses, The Burren including Fr Ted's House and 3800 BC Poulnabrone Dolmen (burial place) then on to the River Shannon Ferry The Shannon Breeze at Killimer
Irish Afternoon Tea in aid of St Vincent de Paul April 24 2016
The Burren
The Burren is a karst landscape in County Clare, Ireland. It measures approximately 250 square kilometres and is enclosed roughly within the circle made by the villages of Ballyvaughan, Kinvara, Tubber, Corofin, Kilfenora and Lisdoonvarna.
The Burren National Park is one of six National Parks in Ireland and the smallest in size.The Burren National Park Visitor Centre is located on Church Street in Corofin, County Clare, Ireland.
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Poulnabrone dolmen, Glenslane, County Clare, Munster, Ireland, Europe
Poulnabrone dolmen is a portal tomb one of approximately 172 in Ireland located in the Burren, County Clare, Ireland. It dates back to the Neolithic period, probably between 4200 BC and 2900 BC. It is situated 8 km (5 miles) south of Ballyvaughan, 9.6 km (6 miles) north-west of Kilnaboy. The tomb is located in a rocky field in the townland of Poulnabrone, civil parish of Kilcorney, close to the R480 road, south of Ballyvaughan in County Clare. The dolmen consists of a twelve-foot, thin, slab-like, tabular capstone (horizontal) supported by two sets of slender upright (vertical) parallel portal stones, which support the capstone 1.8 m (6 ft) from the ground, creating a chamber in a 9 m (30 ft) low cairn. The cairn helped stabilize the tomb chamber, and would have been no higher during the Neolithic. The entrance faces north and is crossed by a low sill stone. A crack was discovered in the eastern portal stone in 1985. Following the resulting collapse, the dolmen was dismantled, and the cracked stone was replaced. Excavations during that time (1986, 1988) found that 33 people, both adults and children, were buried under the monument. Personal items buried with the dead included a polished stone axe, a bone pendant, quartz crystals, weapons and pottery. There were no intact skeletons, indicating the site was not used as a burial place in the sense that bodies were placed there immediately after or even close to the time of death. Bones were found in the original strata, but jumbled chronologically, so they were not buried sequentially. Only one of the adults seems to have lived past 40 and many of the bones showed signs of arthritis in the upper body. The children had teeth showing signs of illness and malnutrition. Two of the bodies displayed injuries: a skull and rib cage with depressed fractures, healed before death, and an adult male hip bone, pierced by the tip of a stone projectile and not healed, which means the injury occurred not much before the time of death. Those selected for deposit at this site were apparently the members of some sort of elite. Their bodies were left elsewhere to decompose, in a protected location, as none of the bones show any signs of teeth marks. Only the bare bones were then taken here and deposited. As some of them show scorch marks, they may have been ritually purified by fire beforehand. According to Radiocarbon dating, the tomb was likely used between 3,800 and 3,200 BC. The findings are now at the Clare Museum, Ennis, loaned from the National Museum of Ireland. In the Bronze Age, (c. 1750 to 1420 BC), a newborn baby was buried in the portico, just outside the entrance. With its dominating presence on the limestone landscape of the Burren, the tomb was probably a centre for ceremony and ritual until well into the Bronze Age period. It may have also served as a territorial marker in the Neolithic landscape on the important north-south route from Ballyvaughan bay to Kilnaboy. It is possible that the inhabitants of extensive settlements near Kilnaboy erected the structure to delimit the northern border of their territory. The dolmen is a popular tourist attraction, located close to the road between Ballyvaughan and Kilnaboy. A rope provides a barrier between tourists and the dolmen in order to preserve the ancient stone. It is requested that tourists do not go beyond this barrier or touch the dolmen. A large car park was opened in 2007 by the Clare County Council to deal with traffic problems caused by cars or coaches parked in the narrow road. A 2005 estimate put the number of annual visitors at 200,000. Due to the Burren's lack of light pollution and Poulnabrone's remote location, the car park has been used by Shannonside Astronomy Club as an unofficial public observatory. In April 2013, many observations of the comet PanSTARRS C/2011 L4 were made by the club at this location. The club still use the site for observing to the present.
Clare Road Race Series - Race 4 - Kilnaboy
Clare Road Race Series - Race 4 - Kilnaboy
12 June 2014
Mullagh Sports Centre Operation Transformation Walk 18/01/2014