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Nenagh, Ireland
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Title
Erins Isle
Artist
Rob Hemphill
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
This region of Ireland, called The Burren, is renowned for its limestone pavements, grykes, clints and alpine wildflowers. The green fields are bordered by beautiful stone walls, created over centuries by removing the rocks from the fields to maintain secure enclosures for the cattle and sheep farming in the area.
The Burren (Irish: Boireann, meaning 'great rock') is a region of environmental interest primarily located in northwestern County Clare, Ireland, dominated by glaciated karst (or sometimes glaciokarst[1]) landscape. It measures, depending on the definition, between 250 square kilometres (97 sq mi) and 560 square kilometres (220 sq mi). The name is most often applied to the area within the circle made by the villages of Tubber, Corofin, Kilfenora, Lisdoonvarna, and Ballyvaughan, and Kinvara in extreme south-western Galway, including the adjacent coastline.
A part of the Burren forms the Burren National Park, the smallest of the six National Parks in Ireland, while the full Burren and adjacent territory including the Cliffs of Moher are included in the Burren and Cliffs of Moher Geopark.
As the ice-cap moved into the Burren from the north-east it carried with it some debris, such as the granite boulders (Glacial erratics) on the coast line. However, the main action of the glacier was to scour the rock clean off any superficial cover that formerly may have lain on the surface, thus exposing and smoothly polishing the underlying bedrock which we know today as the largest classic karst limestone pavements in these islands. Pavements are made up of two separate but integral parts known as clints and grykes. Clints are the blocks of limestone that constitute the paving, their area and shape is directly dependant upon the frequency and pattern of grykes. Grykes are the fissures that isolate the individual clints. The most dominant gryke system runs almost north to south and there is a secondary less-developed system at right angles to it.
Grykes can stretch for hundreds of feet until they suddenly terminate or are lost beneath superficial deposits. Grykes are usually straight but are occasionally curvilinear.
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Featured in the following FAA Groups:
"ABC Group" 03/11/2022
"Hodge Podge" 08/24/2020
"No Place Like Home" 08/23/2020
"Whats New" 08/21/2020
"Daily Promotion" 08/18/2020
"Exploration Photography" 08/18/2020
"Fine Art America Professionals" 08/18/2020
"Your Story of Art" 08/17/2020
"Images That Excite You!" 08/17/2020
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August 17th, 2020
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Western, IL - United States
Congratulations! Your lovely art has been featured on the ABC Group home page from the C IS FOR COUNTRYSIDE week, February 28, 2022 - MARCH 7, 2022. You are invited to add your wonderful art in the Features Archive Discussion in the ABC GROUP as a way to preserve your feature!
Kitchener, On - Canada
Stunning capture....so many beautiful sights in the area including the Aillwee Cave....love it all!! T/P
Independence, KS - United States
CONGRATULATIONS! It is my great pleasure to FEATURE your artwork on the homepage of the group No Place Like Home, 8/23/2020! You are invited to post it in the Group's Features Discussion thread for posterity or any other thread that fits!
Knoxville, TN - United States
Beautiful! I don't think there's any better color combination than blue and green.
Dayton, WA - United States
This is an inviting image, a place where one would want to spend the day.
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