Sea penetrating inland Burren Grykes of Bladder & Spleen Bladder rock curing goitre & Seaweed having a Spleen

Sea penetrating inland Burren Grykes of Bladder & Spleen & Bladder rock curing goitre & Seaweed having a Spleen

Imagine fossil corals a million years old Are found sculpted by nature into the limestone All along Flaggy Shore near Kinvara Most successful grass on Burren is Blue Moor or Sesleria Caerulea Flowering in May across Lough Avalla . With a menagerie of Sea plants at Traucht beech Tufts of Sea Spleen Wort or Asplenium Marinum Growing in Grykes that are sprayed by the salty Sea Its fronds are leathery & shiny Its name derived from resemblance to the human spleen Noted by a Greek physician Dioscorides 2,000 years ago . Not far away grows Sea Campion or Silene Uniflora And the Grey Moth Hadena Caesia Mananíí feasts on it Along with other primitive wingless insects as the Large Bristletail or Petrobius Maritimus in clefts of rocks All along the shore at Fanore you can see zonation With permanent rock pools full of Barnacles & Mussels Mytilus Edulis Predator free out of reach by been exposed to breaking waves & erosion . Brown Algae or Bifurcaria Bifurcata grow in rock pools Along with Sea Anemones & Purple Sea Urchins or Paracentrotus Lividus Surrounded by Barnacles of Acorn & Bladder Wrack Fucus Vesiculosus Which boasted the origin of Iodine by Bernard Courtis in 1811 And was used to treat goitre of the thyroid gland . Imagine fossil corals a million years old Are found sculpted by nature into the limestone And Bladder Rock Curing Goitre of the Thyroid & Seaweed having a Spleen .