The Burren Visitor Centre in Kilfenora, County Clare, will celebrate its 50th anniversary on Sunday September 14 2025. For five decades, it has been a vital destination for visitors from around the world, offering a unique window into the geology, ecology, and history of the stunning Burren region. Famed for its breath-taking limestone pavements, rich …
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ADVENTURERS will descend quite literally on the spectacular Burren National Park later this month as MS Ireland hosts a cliff abseiling challenge to raise essential funds for people living with Multiple Sclerosis.
A two-day event focusing on the preservation and cultural significance of dry-stone walling in the Burren takes place this Saturday and Sunday (July 19th and 20th) at the Common Knowledge Centre in Kilfenora.
*Burren Oysters. Photograph: Eamon Ward IRELAND’s longest-running slow food festival returns to the Burren for its twentieth year.
A PILOT bus service for the Burren and Cliffs of Moher is expected to commence at the beginning of May and “will only work if people use the bus”.
BURREN Smoked Irish Eel from the Burren Smokehouse in Co Clare was the recipient of 3 stars at this year’s Great Taste Awards, the Guild of Fine Food has announced.
GREATER ADVERTISING of the free shuttle bus to the Burren National Park is needed.
The Burren in County Clare. Photograph: AirSwing Media GEOLOGY, history, ecology and future tourism development of the Burren is the focus of a major two-day event to take place next month.
PICTURED: Dr. Eamon Doyle, Dr. Joseph Botting and Dr. Lucy Muir with the new fossil sponges discovered near the Cliffs of Moher An extraordinary new species of fossil sponge dating back to a time when County Clare was located close to the Equator has been discovered in the rocks that make up the Cliffs of …
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*Helga Himmelsbach. Photograph: John Mangan A NORTH CLARE widow has written to the Minister for Transport to share her “deep frustration” on the failure to implement road safety improvements following the death of her husband in July.