Cork tourism

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Get ready to rock with Mack Fleetwood, the ultimate Fleetwood Mac tribute live at Ballinrobe Festival - for a 2.5 hour show!

14/12/2025

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🌍 The Burren – A Landscape Written in Stone 🪨🇮🇪

Stretching across County Clare, the Burren is one of Ireland’s most astonishing geological wonders — a vast, limestone karst landscape shaped by time, water, and ancient earth movements.

Formed around 330 million years ago during the Carboniferous period, its pale grey rock was once the bed of a tropical sea. Fossils of coral and sea creatures can still be found locked in its surface. Over millennia, rainwater — naturally slightly acidic — carved its way through the rock, creating grykes (deep cracks) and clints (flat slabs), giving the Burren its signature pavement-like appearance.

But it’s not just bare stone. In spring and summer, rare wildflowers bloom in the gaps: Arctic, Alpine, and Mediterranean species growing side by side — a botanical puzzle that draws scientists from around the world.

Underground, the Burren hides an equally dramatic world: vast cave systems like Aillwee and Doolin Cave, where underground rivers have sculpted chambers and tunnels over millennia.

A place of paradox — harsh yet fertile, barren yet bursting with life — the Burren is a geological record, a floral sanctuary, and a cultural touchstone, all in one.



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📍Casa Batllo, Passeig de Gracia, Barcelona, ​​Spain

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☘️ This is the amazing view that greets you after you go through the highest point of The Healy Pass looking down towards County Kerry . A drive not for the faint hearted as a lot of turns and twists and narrow roads but very much worth it for the views both on the Cork and Kerry side


Photo Credit 📷 Bridget Gleason Healy

15/11/2025

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Sisa · Qualsevol nit pot sortir el sol · Song · 1975

14/11/2025

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