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1 The Burren is a fun place… so lets get to know it!

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3 Landscape

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5 Burren - Boireann – Place of Stone Clints Grykes

6 Glacial Erratic

7 Turlough

8 6,000 years ago in the Burren …

9 Built Heritage (9,000 BP – 1500 BP)

10 A ‘Court Tomb’

11 Wedge Tomb

12 Fulacht Fiadh (Bronze Age)

13 Stone Fort or Caher

14 Cahercommaun Stone Fort

15 Tower House or Castle

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17 True or False…..  Tower houses had lifts to get people to the top…..  There were TV’s in Stone Forts……  The people that built Poulnabrone farmed cattle….  There are Tombs called ‘Chip Tombs’…..  People made their clothes from animal skins….  People wore jewellery….  All the children had X-boxes…..

18 Burren fauna

19 Common lizard Slow worm

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22 Burren flora

23 Spring gentians

24 Fly orchid and Bee orchid

25 Butterwort

26 Burren Farming

27 Sheep puicket

28 Shelter wall

29 Goat cro

30 Burren Food

31 Burren Culture and Community

32 The legend of the Bo Glas Ghaibhneach

33 St. Colman

34 Maire Rua

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36 Music, dancing, story telling and writing…..

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