Our first hike into the Burren
Deeper into the countryside.
Beautiful colors in the grass.
Heading for a stone-age site.
The dolomite stone has a rugged beauty.
This tree is very old, but not so big.
A place where we need to watch where we step.
This is a 3,000 year old kitchen fire hearth.
Rtz is drinking from the fountain of life
Heather is colorful this time of year.
Coming up on a Holy Well.
Learning the history of the Holy Site
This author is the figure in the middle.
Moving again, into the lower fields.
This church is from the 5th or 6th century.
The first Christian church in the area.
Stone Work in the church.
A grave marker in the church floor.
Another view of church built in 700ad.
This is the third church, built in 1194.
Burial plots on holy ground.
Bigger than the earlier churches.
Graves in the church floor.
The Burren, in County Clare, is a beautiful rugged wilderness full of stone-age relics, heather, and dolomite rock.
The blackberries and haselnuts were ready for eating, and growing wild everywhere.
He gave us unique insight into the area, that someone could have only after generations of living in the area.
They own the rental house we stayed in. They are wonderful, and the rental home is wonderful. If you are interested in renting, bauersacchetti@aol.com
The other two are Paul and Carolyn, the second couple we were in Ireland with. They are wonderful people.
We are heading into the grounds of a church built around 500ad.
This is the first of two churches built on this site.
Built around 470, the area grew so fast they built a second, bigger church in 700. Then built a third in 1170, about a mile away.