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Pubs in Clare

Clare Bar HoppingCounty Clare (Hotels, Clare, Ireland) is one of Irelands premier holiday counties. Known as the Banner County, Clare (Bed and Breakfasts, Clare, Ireland) on Ireland’s west coast is host to the world famous Burren, the Shannon River and more traditional Irish music than we can list! The Cliffs of Moher, standing “majestic and defiant” against the fierce Atlantic Ocean are one of the most renowned features of the Irish coastline. Clare (Accommodation, Ireland StreetsClare, Ireland) is also known as the “singing county which is self-explanatory, wherever you go you can be almost certain of finding a pub offering scheduled or impromptu sessions of traditional music.

Geology In Clare

Cliffs of Moher In the northern part of Clare (Self Catering, Clare, Ireland) the magnificent terraced mountains of the Burren are carved out of horizontally bedded limestone. This rock is also exposed in a band some 12 miles wide running south through and to the east of Ennis and reaching the Shannon. South and west of the limestone, area are large exposures of Carboniferous sandstone. Perhaps the most striking of these is to be found in the long range of the cliffs of Moher. These vertical cliffs of horizontally bedded Hills on Claresandstone are perhaps the finest in the British Isles. At the northern end, near O’Briens Tower, one may lie on the edge of the cliff and drop a pebble into the Atlantic 600 ft. below. At Kilkee we have also magnificent cliff scenery, and here some of the surfaces of the sandstones exhibit excellent examples of ripple marks. In North Clare we have a large area of bare limestone in which meteoric agencies have carved out the magnificent natural terraces of the Burren. Drifts occur in the valleys and are largely made up of limestone detritus, with some pebbles and blocks of Galway granite. Further south limestone, blocks are associated with sandstone and shale.