The Burren

Throughout our bus tour, we were driving through the lands called The Burren = barren.  These are high hills that are largely made of limestone.  The hills themselves are rock covered and slope down into valleys that are also full of rocks (used to make the ever present rock walls).  The land is good for pasture, but not farming. And the higher hills are too rocky even for much grazing.  The landscape was absolutely beautiful.  I'm not sure any of my pictures to justice to it...Delaney remarked "it looks kind of like snow" - there is a clear line of rock that begins about halfway up the hills and caps them off.  With the rain today, the water was soaking through the almost non-existent topsoil and then running off the rocks to small waterfalls cascading down the hills.