Saturday 1 June 2019

Around the Burren (4) - rocks, greenery and creatures



limestone pavement, glacial erratics, neolithic portal tomb

local Burren style of building dry stone walls

Tolkienesque views* seen here at a ruined hermitage and holy well, and in a garden** designed to blend with the local landscape

creatures seen: cattle grazing by the shore, frog by a bog, snails, and botanising humans!


* There is an association between Tolkien and The Burren, and a suggestion that Middle Earth was in part inspired by the landscape here.

**Caher Bridge Garden's Facebook page has lots of photos and a review by a gardener gives further background information.


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