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THE BURREN By Conor, Lochlan, Marykate, and Luca  The Burren is a karst landscape, this means it is an area of exposed limestone.

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2 THE BURREN By Conor, Lochlan, Marykate, and Luca  The Burren is a karst landscape, this means it is an area of exposed limestone.

3 THE BURREN The Burren was formed by the sea level dropping and exposing the limestone underneath.

4 Ailwee caves The ailwee caves were formed by water mixing with carbon in the rocks to make carbonic acid which slowly dissolves the rocks. It was founded by a farmer in 1944 but he didn’t tell anyone until 1973.

5 Rare Plants and Animals. The Burren is famous for all different types of rare plants and animals some examples are pine marten,pearl-bordered- fritillary and the brown hairstreak. Examples of plants are the fly orchid,mountain avens and the birds foot trefoil animalsplants

6 Agriculture Agriculture is a big part of the burren. The livestock go upland in the winter and lowland in the summer.

7 Coastline The Cliffs of Moher is a very famous place along the coast of Clare in the Burren. It also has Hags head and O’Briens tower.

8 CREDITS This project on the burren was made by Lochhlan and Luca and also by Mary- Kate and Conor. Hope you enjoyed it.


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