LOOP HEAD - an area of striking Geological spectacles Loop Head (The Leap) is a Peninsula in south County Clare, Ireland. The south shore marks the beginning of the Shannon River whilst the west shore is buffeted with the Atlantic Ocean. The cliffs on the west side of the Peninsula are dramatic with sea [...]
WHERE THE KARST LIMESTONE PAVEMENTS STRETCH DOWN TO THE OCEAN; A STARK BEAUTY. The Burren National Park in North County Clare is a limestone wilderness with green grasslands interspersed and divided by a latticework of amazing dry stone walls. Neolithic Dolmens, burial tombs of the wealthy, once covered with soil and now laid bare [...]
DARTMOOR, AN INCREDIBLY WILD AND BEAUTIFUL PLACE Dartmoor National Park is a unique and vast moorland in Devon County, in southwest England covering some 954 square kilometers. A place of natural beauty, the terrain is undulating with large granite rock formations protruding from the summit of rounded, gently sloping hills, called “Tors”. There are [...]
