Clints

Clints

Limestone pavement clints recalls the coast road At Blackhead or Poulsallagh Or the Lowlands of Coolorta and Roo & the steeped layered hills at Mullach Mór Made up of bare rock, grassland scrub & heath . It is the limestone pavement That stands out like a silver lining Whether the limestone is well worn or sculpted With round edges of rock Implying exposure over long periods . Clint’s and grykes and limestone glacial erratics Appear as hollows in pavement where first raindrop lingered imagine With inset of six species of lichen colonies of Orange Xanthoria & Caloplaca Which grow on the flat Clint surface? Causing viewer to think oil paint blob splashed on limestone hue Yellow Ochre Imagine painted by self-sufficient lichen that produce their own food From Sunlight Water & Carbon Dioxide . Also, other lichen like Arthonia Cinnabarina, Cladonia Furcata or Degela Plumbea, Graphis Scripta Or Lobaria Pulmonaria or Lungwort Popular Lobaria Pulmonaria’s scientific name It’s common name in lay man’s language is Lungwort Boasting large leathery Green leaves deeply lobed & hairy A Reddish-Brown colour appears on the thallus ridges after ten years A lichen usually found on Tree trunks according to folklore It resembles the inner tissue of lungs & used to treat pulmonary ailments Containing anti-inflammatory & ulcer preventing properties . Limestone pavement clints recalls the coast road At Blackhead or Poulsallagh Or the Lowlands of Coolorta and Roo & the steeped layered hills at Mullach Mór Made up of bare rock, grassland scrub & heath .