Cappaghmore from Turloughmore

Looking Northish towards Cappaghmore and Slieve Carran from near Turloughmore. This is an example of the classic karst landscape that characterises the Burren. Despite its seeming barrenness many plants inhabit these rocky pavements and the cracks (grykes) between them. Flowering plants, orchids, ferns, lichens and also shrubs and trees like hawthorn, blackthorn, holly, ash and yew. Often these latter grow prostrate, huddled to the ground against the Atlantic winds, but nonetheless lush and verdant. This is the Burren in mid-July 2004.

Ralph Doyle