Guided One-Day Trip
15 Sep 2005
Price: €35 per person (lunch
is not included).
The trip will be guided by
Tony Kirby from
Heart of
Burren Walks. We will departure from the UL campus early in the
morning on the 15th of September to meet Tony in Ennis. We will return to
the UL campus in the early evening.
Note: We can take up
to 45 people on the trip. The seats on the coach will be sold on a first
come, first served basis. If you would like to join the trip please make
sure you include it when you register for
the conference.
Depending on the weather
conditions etc., the itinerary will be something along the lines below:
Morning
-
Visit The Great Famine monument between
Lahinch and Ennistymon - opposite the site of the Ennistymon workhouse.
-
Visit St Bridget's Holy Well between
Liscannor and the Cliffs. Holy wells circa 3,000 in Ireland all formerly
pagan sites.
-
Visit the
Cliffs of Moher
- some of most dramatic sea cliffs in Europe - 8 km long and 210 m high -
drama lies in their sheer verticality. Home to vast colonies of seabirds
such as guillemots, razorbills and puffins.
-
Enter the
Burren
via Lisdoonvarna - visit Ballyryan - an area of international significance
ecologically which boasts flowers from the Mediterranean, Alpine and
Arctic regions growing happily together side by side.
-
Proceed to Ballyvaughan via spectacular
coastal drive around Black Head.
-
Stop in Ballyvaughan for lunch.
Afternoon
-
Travel main north south interior road of
Burren - boasting a very high concentration of archaeology and some
classic natural features of a karstic landscape.
-
Visit the magnificent early Christian
earthen fort An Ráth in Ballyvaughan valley.
-
Visit also the stone fort Cathar Mhór.
-
See field where Gleninsheen gold collar
(Bronze Age) was found and also view Gleninsheen wedge tomb therein.
-
Visit Poulnabrone dolmen - 600 year old
chambered tomb - the archaeological icon of the Burren.
-
Stop at Leamaneh Castle at the interface
between the Burren and the outside world - a singular attachment of a
Renaissance mansion to an earlier medieval towerhouse.
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