The Cliffs are only an hour and a half from Adare and the roads are much better than I remember from my first trip. The crowds have increased significantly, however. We were once again lucky with the weather with rain only when we were in the rock and fossil shop just before the cliffs.
The Burren Way, the walking path along the cliffs has a section behind stone barricades, but lots of people chose to walk on the open cliffs, risking the danger of the cliff collapsing under them. Someone died just last month by getting too close to the edge.
Afterwards we drove into the Burren, an unusual carst topography area laid down on the bottom of seas in the last ice age. The roads through the Burren are narrow, but luckily there was not much traffic.
We visited Kilfenora Church with the largest collection of stone Celtic crosses carved in the 11th and 12th centuries.
From there we went to the Burren, a limestone formation dotted with Neolithic tombs and stone forts.
Caherconnell stone fort
