Burren (Cavan)
The Burren [ ˈbʌɹən ] ( Irish An Bhoireann [ ən̪ˠ ˈwɛɾʲən̪ˠ ], "stony place") is a karst landscape in the north of County Cavan in Ireland . Similar landscapes can be found in Countys Clare , Down in Northern Ireland and in Great Britain in: Durness , on the Isle of Skye and in Cumbria Perthshire , Yorkshire and South Wales . The Cavan Burren is a limestone plateau about three kilometers south of Blacklion , northwest of Cuilcagh Mountain. It is part of the Marble Arch Caves Global Geopark , one of the numerous UNESCO Global Geoparks .
The Burren is a landscape in which monuments, living spaces and fields from prehistoric times survived. In addition to abnormalities from the last Ice Age, there are pre-glacial dry valleys and sinkholes . The fossils embedded in the limestone are the corals of a tropical sea from 350 million years ago. The area is a palimpsest of human and geological history recorded in the Karst.
Its geographical location, as well as the political situation in neighboring Northern Ireland, contributed to a general lack of knowledge and recognition of the archaeological sites in the Burren in the last third of the 20th century.
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Coordinates: 54 ° 16 '35.6 " N , 7 ° 53' 4.5" W.