Jon in front of a thatched roof house on the outskirts of Kinvara
Dunguaire Castle
Our first experience encountering swans smitten with Jon
Sarah looking toward Kinvara in the distance
The Burren is the largest geological formation of its kind in Western Europe. The area gets its name from the Gaelic bhoireann, "rocky land."
Jon in front of the ubiquitous stone fences throughout The Burren (and Ireland, as a whole)
We tried to fit so much into our southern tour of County Shannon that we ran out of time to visit all the sites we hoped to see. A surly park ranger at Caherconnell Stone Fort would not let us in even though it was five o'clock and the park closed at 5. It did look cool, though, even if all we were able to see was the exterior perimeter. Fortunately, we had no time constraints at Poulnabrone Dolmen, a portal tomb dated to 2500 B.C.
Our search for Cahermore Stone Fort was fruitless, but we did find an earthen ring fort, An Rath, as we headed back to home base in Galway. Check it out at the bottom of this link, The Burren.
