Sacred Burren you’re like a Massive Burial Site Cairn II

Burren it’s like you were born with a heart silver spoon in your mouth Or displaying precious metals such as Gold & Silver When the sun shines on the Burren glistening symbolising riches & wealth Gold With feminine energy of full moon yin reflected in Lough Bunny Or Traucht Beech harmonising ebb & flow of tides hue of Silver .

Sacred Burren you’re like a Massive Burial Site Cairn II

Selected For HearSay International Audio Festival 2021

Burren you’re like a 6,000-year-old giant silver monument glistening Or a vast memorial to bygone days With graves hewn in shapes of Wedge Tombs at Creevagh Chambered tombs at Roughan hill Portal tombs at Poulnabrone Icon of the Burren Burial Cairn at Poulawack .

With wildflowers peering up through Clints & Grykes of world heritage monuments Boasting a display of Spring Gentian, Mountain Avens & Bird’s-Foot Trefoil Singing hues of Azure Blueberry Sapphire Seashell Ivory Icon Yellow As a natural wild R .I .P . Rest in Peace Floral offering to our Clare ancestors . High Crosses at Dysert Ó Dea, curing eyes at holy wells like Saint Colman’s Holy shrines at Church of Saint Cronan, As point of pilgrimage Corcomroe Abbey or our Lady of the Fertile Rock With our Famine Roads & ruined settlements of Famine Villages . With wildflowers peering up through Clints & Grykes of world heritage monuments Boasting a display of Spring Gentian, Mountain Avens & Bird’s-Foot Trefoil Singing hues of Azure Blueberry Sapphire Seashell Ivory Icon Yellow As a natural wild R .I .P . Rest in Peace Floral offering to our Clare ancestors .

Croí Naofa an Boireann

Croí Na Boireann Heart of Burren You’re the centre middle hub core Mecca Nucleus kernel bosom navel mercy pity soul Of Burren offering humans & animals sensitivity affection affinity bravery Benevolence joyfulness generosity humaneness every beingness virtue . Heart of the Burren Croí Na Boirne With your biggest Karst Landscape in Europe And limestone pavements with your clints & Grykes You have a species rich grassland for pregnant Belties And Turlough Cladium Fens & petrifying springs . Boireann means rocky area or a stony place Burren you have a moon like landscape Miles & miles of bare rock with fertility only growing in cracks Knockanes Hill boasts the highest spot it’s a carved ridge that extends south to Mullach Mór . You’ve a big open-heart Burren With all the villages flowing in arteries & tributaries around you In a Hymn of Names As not aorta or vena cava But Boston, Carron, Corofin, Crusheen, Tubber, Doolin, Ennistymon, Fanore, Ballyvaughan, Gort, Kilfenora, Kilnaboy, Kilshanny, Kinvara, Lisdoonvarna, Liscannor . To the East is Boston or Móinín An gCloigeann meaning the little Bog of the skulls Middle or heart of Burren is Carron An Carn means a heap of stones for a chief’s grave Overlooking the region’s biggest Turlough & birthplace of Michael Cusack Also boasting deepest calcareous lake Lough Bunny . Corofin or Cora Finne means the White or foam flecked ford With Lough Inchiquin home of Clare heritage & genealogical Centre Offering insights to Irish life in 1800’s & visitors wishing to trace their Roots Crusheen or Croisín the little cross with wedge tombs, ruined castle & a Church .

South West is Doolin or Dubh Linn means the dark pool with its Cliffs of Moher & Ailwee Caves At the southern extremity is Ennistymon & its beautiful cascades of the Cullenagh River Along Western edge is Fanore or Fán Óir it means the golden slope With its beeches & sand dune system & Caher River running from source to Sea . Ballyvaughan or Baile Uí Bhecaháin means Ó Beachán’s townland On the shore of Galway Bay or Gaillimhe South is Gort or An Gort meaning the field Boasting home of playwright Lady Gregory’s at Coole & poet William Butler Yeats’s, Thoor, Ballylee South is Kilfenora or Cill An Abhraoidh means eyebrow shaped hillside Rich in ecclesiastical heritage with its High Crosses, Cathedral, Saint Brigid & Ceíli Band . And Liscannor Lios Ceannúir meaning “ringfort of Ceannúr” with Saint Bridget’s church and Holy well there . & Kilnaboy or Cill Iníne Baoith means church of the daughter of Baoith Boasting castle Lemenach home to Máire Rua & Inchiquin a paradise for Botanist On Southern fringe lies Kilshanny or Cill Seanaigh means the Church of Senan Boasting lovely Green vales with inset Abbey’s of Saint Mary’s & Saint Augustine & holy wells & Cairn Connachtach . Then over to Kinvara or Cinn Mhara means “the head of the Sea” A fishing village North Clare to Lisdoonvarna or Lios Dun Bhearna Means “at the fort by the gap” With its curing Spa’s water rich in magnesia, iodine & iron Early Nineteenth Century & My Tubber or Tobar means “well” with its scattered healing wells For eyes & throat in a blessing . Croí Na Boireann Heart of Burren You’re the centre middle hub core Mecca Nucleus kernel bosom navel mercy pity soul Of Burren offering humans & animals sensitivity affection affinity bravery Benevolence joyfulness generosity humaneness every beingness virtue .