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The Burren, County Claire, Ireland Of all the contrasts, however, the most dramatic is undoubtedly the least evident – that between the Burren as it is now and the Burren as it was long ago. To the casual visitor, what characterizes the landscape now? First of all, it is the starkness of the mountains and the emptiness of the limestone uplands and plateaus...The prevailing impression, at least initially, is of a landscape scraped bare ... Evidence now indicates very strongly that the existing Burren landscape is not the work of nature but the result of human habitation. Originally, we are told, the Burren was densely forested, with pine and yew the dominant trees ... In the course of many centuries large-scale forest clearance made land available for grazing and later for farming. But the constanct action of the wind on the cleared areas of light soil led in time to erosion.
Anne Korff and Jeff O'Connell, The Burren: A Ramblers Guide and Map, 1986.
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