WILD FLOWERS THE BURREN CO CLARE hen painting Ireland’s second highest peak

Ireland’s second highest peak

George Derwent Thomson and Kenneth H

Lynch's Castle

Located approximately 25 km (16 mi) south of Cork City on the southeast coast near the Old Head of Kinsale

WILD FLOWERS THE BURREN CO CLARE hen painting Ireland’s second highest peakBotanically, the Burren is one of the most fascinating regions in Western Europe with plants normally found in widely separate parts of the continent growing alongside each other. Thus mountains avens, a species usually found in sub arctic and mountainous areas, can be found alongside such southern European species as bloody cranesbill and the dense flowered orchid whose distribution is centred on the Mediterranean. In addition, plants ordinarily