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Habitats
On the farm we have 5 Burren habitats; pavement, calcareous grassland, scrub, woodland and turlough. You can identify the di�erent habitats using the habitat hunt signs around the nature walks.
It quickly reverts to scrub blocking out the light from the wild�owers causing them to die away.
Fauna
Feral Goats
Badger Fox Cubs by R Jones Pine MartinBat
Slow Worm Hare
You can see where pavement has not been grazed.
Otter by Kevin Murphy
Eventually trees overtake the scrub. The Burren would revert to woodland if left ungrazed.
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Map of the Broad Habitats of the Burren, Co. Clare
Improved Grassland
Stronger Winterage
Weaker winterage
Limestone Pavement
Vegetated Limestone Pavement
Scrub & Woodland
Mature Calluna Heath or Open Scrub
Water Bodies & Lacustrine Vegetation
Drying Turloughs
Tillage
Dunes
Conifer Plantation
Clear Fell
MG10-type Grassland
Blanket Bog & Wet Heath
Cloud Haze Area
Cloud Shadow Area
All habitats, except scrub & woodland, mappedusing Landsat 7 ETM+ imagery from April 2003.Scrub & woodland mapped using combinedimagery from April 2003 & August 2000. Mapcreated using supervised classification based onfield work carried out in 2003-2004.
1 centimeter equals 0.5 kilometers
1:50,000
Map created by S. L. Parr (1) in association with G. O'Donovan (1) & J. Finn (2).1 Dept. Environmental Resource Management, University College Dublin.2 Teagasc, Johnstown Castle.
This project was funded by the Irish Governmentunder the National Development Plan 2000 - 2006
© University College Dublin
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Map of the Broad Habitats of the Burren, Co. Clare
Improved Grassland
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Limestone Pavement
Vegetated Limestone Pavement
Scrub & Woodland
Mature Calluna Heath or Open Scrub
Water Bodies & Lacustrine Vegetation
Drying Turloughs
Tillage
Dunes
Conifer Plantation
Clear Fell
MG10-type Grassland
Blanket Bog & Wet Heath
Cloud Haze Area
Cloud Shadow Area
All habitats, except scrub & woodland, mappedusing Landsat 7 ETM+ imagery from April 2003.Scrub & woodland mapped using combinedimagery from April 2003 & August 2000. Mapcreated using supervised classification based onfield work carried out in 2003-2004.
1 centimeter equals 0.5 kilometers
1:50,000
Map created by S. L. Parr (1) in association with G. O'Donovan (1) & J. Finn (2).1 Dept. Environmental Resource Management, University College Dublin.2 Teagasc, Johnstown Castle.
This project was funded by the Irish Governmentunder the National Development Plan 2000 - 2006
© University College Dublin
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Map of the Broad Habitats of the Burren, Co. Clare
Improved Grassland
Stronger Winterage
Weaker winterage
Limestone Pavement
Vegetated Limestone Pavement
Scrub & Woodland
Mature Calluna Heath or Open Scrub
Water Bodies & Lacustrine Vegetation
Drying Turloughs
Tillage
Dunes
Conifer Plantation
Clear Fell
MG10-type Grassland
Blanket Bog & Wet Heath
Cloud Haze Area
Cloud Shadow Area
All habitats, except scrub & woodland, mappedusing Landsat 7 ETM+ imagery from April 2003.Scrub & woodland mapped using combinedimagery from April 2003 & August 2000. Mapcreated using supervised classification based onfield work carried out in 2003-2004.
1 centimeter equals 0.5 kilometers
1:50,000
Map created by S. L. Parr (1) in association with G. O'Donovan (1) & J. Finn (2).1 Dept. Environmental Resource Management, University College Dublin.2 Teagasc, Johnstown Castle.
This project was funded by the Irish Governmentunder the National Development Plan 2000 - 2006
© University College Dublin
Karst & Water Vulnerability
Water enters through closeddepressions & dolines
River water entersthrough sinkhole
Water enters through soilor limestone pavement
Shale
Limestone
To spring
The Turlough on the South East corner of the farm is a typical karst feature. It is a rising of the Blackwater river that has eroded the limestone and �ows underground from the Derrybrien Hills to Dunguaire Castle in Kinvara Bay. This has been traced with dyes by the Geological Society of Ireland.
The unique property of the turlough here is that although it is freshwater it is tidal - it changes depth twice a day and in summer it completely empties at low tide.
Water VunerabliityThe karsti�ed aquifer system in this area is classed as of ‘extreme vunerability’. Improperly functioning septic tanks leach pollutants straight into the underground aquifers. Most people think their tank is ‘working’ if it doesn’t clog up, but without correctly designed percolation many old septic tanks are constantly pouring pollutants into the groundwater. Out of sight, out of mind……This problem is being addressed in the ‘Protect our water’ scheme. The waste water treatment system for this visitor centre uses a biological �lter that sprays the e�uent over a media containing aerobic bacteria that digest the nutrients. It is then pumped to a specially designed sand �lter that contains anaerobic bacteria to completely remove all pollutants and nutrients before it is released into the groundwater.
Most karst features can be viewed on the wild�ower walk apart from caves, terraces & petri�ed springs.
Terraces Shattered Pavement Clints and grikes Kamenitzas Runnels Erratic
Turloughs Brachiopods Corals Traces of vertical burrows of Olivellites/Scolicia
Fossils from the tropical sea that existed 350 million years ago can be seen all over the Burren
What is karst?Limestone exposed in the ice age that has been eroded over time by water forming the many glacio-karst features that we see in the Burren today.
How septic is your tank?
Download the new Wastewater Code of Practice at:www.epa.ie/whatwedo/advice/wastewater
Brought to you by the Environmental Protection Agency.
How protected is your well?A third of Private Group Water Schemes are
contaminated with E Coli.
You must maintain your septic tank!
The kids are down again with that
tummy bug!Too bad -
was it something they ate?
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Map of the Broad Habitats of the Burren, Co. Clare
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Limestone Pavement
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Scrub & Woodland
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All habitats, except scrub & woodland, mappedusing Landsat 7 ETM+ imagery from April 2003.Scrub & woodland mapped using combinedimagery from April 2003 & August 2000. Mapcreated using supervised classification based onfield work carried out in 2003-2004.
1 centimeter equals 0.5 kilometers
1:50,000
Map created by S. L. Parr (1) in association with G. O'Donovan (1) & J. Finn (2).1 Dept. Environmental Resource Management, University College Dublin.2 Teagasc, Johnstown Castle.
This project was funded by the Irish Governmentunder the National Development Plan 2000 - 2006
© University College Dublin
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Map of the Broad Habitats of the Burren, Co. Clare
Improved Grassland
Stronger Winterage
Weaker winterage
Limestone Pavement
Vegetated Limestone Pavement
Scrub & Woodland
Mature Calluna Heath or Open Scrub
Water Bodies & Lacustrine Vegetation
Drying Turloughs
Tillage
Dunes
Conifer Plantation
Clear Fell
MG10-type Grassland
Blanket Bog & Wet Heath
Cloud Haze Area
Cloud Shadow Area
All habitats, except scrub & woodland, mappedusing Landsat 7 ETM+ imagery from April 2003.Scrub & woodland mapped using combinedimagery from April 2003 & August 2000. Mapcreated using supervised classification based onfield work carried out in 2003-2004.
1 centimeter equals 0.5 kilometers
1:50,000
Map created by S. L. Parr (1) in association with G. O'Donovan (1) & J. Finn (2).1 Dept. Environmental Resource Management, University College Dublin.2 Teagasc, Johnstown Castle.
This project was funded by the Irish Governmentunder the National Development Plan 2000 - 2006
© University College Dublin
Farming
Robert Cresswell lived in a cottage on the farm in the 1950s, he was an American anthropologist and conducted a major study on rural farming. He left us with a great record of farming around Kinvara in that period. The photographs of sheep dipping on this panel were taken on a boreen that leads to the ruined farm complex - seen on the wild�ower walk.
Ancient Farm DwellingsThis farm complex seen on the wild�ower walk has been used for housing animals and at times for human habitation as the extensive piles of shells in the ‘middens’ show. This could have been around 1700 when there was a population explosion in Kinvara and any remotely habitable building was lived in.
Farming & FloraFarming is essential to the survival of the Burren �ora. Cattle, sheep and goats graze the hills in winter when water is available to drink, keeping the grass short and the Burren free of encroaching scrub. In the Summer when natural springs dry up stock are moved to the low meadows allowing the �owers to bloom on the hills undisturbed. As in the high Burren hills suckler cows graze the wild�ower walk (winterage) for 8 weeks during the winter, eating the strong grass and bushes and improving conditions for wild�owers.
Organic FarmingThe farm is certi�ed organic and has never been arti�cially fertilised - keeping to a low impact, more natural extensive system of farming (fewer cattle per acre, cattle out in winter and have calves in Spring time to avoid unecessary housing)
Birds
The Burren has a wealth of bird life with over 70% of Ireland’s breeding birds surveyed in the area. Seven species of high conservation concern, (listed in Annex 1 of the European birds directive) are resident including the Peregrine Falcon. They can be seen circling high over the Burren National Park and diving at speeds of up to 240 mph- the fastest creature on the planet.
Birds commonly seen on the farm include:Garden Birds - for example the Blackbird, the Blue Tit, Coal Tit and the Mistle Thrush. Winter Visitors - from Iceland such as the Snipe, Teal and Widgeon.Summer visitors - from Africa for example Swallows, Starlings and the Cuckoo (who has a stronghold in the Burren).Resident wetland birds - such as the Heron and Mallard. Other birds on the farm include Pheasant, Rooks, Gulls and Owls.
Rook
Raven*
Starling murmuration
Teal Widgeon
Gull
Peregrine Falcon E.W.Delaney Redpoll E.W.Delaney
Cuckoo
Mistle Thrush*Blue Tit* Coal Tit*Blackbird*
Snipe*
Heron J. Cullen Mallard pair*Swallow chicks Stefanie Fleischer
Pheasant D.Heaphy Barn Owls E.W Delaney
* Images by L.Lysaght
Butterflies
The Burren is the best place in Ireland for butter�ies, with all but two native species living here. All of the threatened species on the red list for conservation are found here, including the Pearl Bordered Fritillary, whose distribution is almost entirely within the borders of the Burren.
There is also a magni�cent range of moths including the wonderful Burnet moth and the rare Burren Green Moth -unique to this region.
* Images by L. Lysaght
Green-veined white* Orange-tip J.Cullen
Red Admiral*
Peacock*
Marsh Fritillary E.Regan
Speckled Wood Kevin MurphyPearl-bordered Fritillary Oisin Meagher
Dingy Skipper*
Small Heath* Silver-washed Fritillary L.Scott
Wood White* Small Copper* Brimestone R.Cardon Dark Green Fritillary K. Murphy
Small Tortoiseshell*
Burnet Moth Burren Green Moth
Dingy Skipper Kevin Murphy
