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Stalactites seen in the Aillwee caves. Aillwee Cave (Irish: Aill Bhuí) is a cave system in the karst landscape of the Burren in County Clare, Ireland. The name Aillwee is derived from the Irish Aill Bhuí which means "yellow cliff". [2] Privately owned, it forms part of the Aillwee Cave and Birds of Prey Centre attraction.
The Burren (/ ˈ b ʌr ə n / BURR-ən; Irish: Boirinn, meaning 'rocky district') [1] is a karst/glaciokarst landscape centred in County Clare, on the west coast of Ireland. [2] It measures around 530 square kilometres (200 sq mi), within the circle made by the villages of Lisdoonvarna, Corofin, Gort and Kinvara. [3]
Doolin Cave (Irish: Pol an Ionain or Poll-an-Ionain) is a limestone cave near Doolin in County Clare, Ireland, on the western edge of The Burren. The name is the anglicised version of the Irish name Poll an Eidhneáin , which is said to translate into "Ivy Cliff Cave". [ 1 ]
Aill na Cronain (Irish: Aill na Crónáin; Cronan's cliff) is an inland west-facing limestone crag in The Burren in County Clare, Ireland.It is popular with novice rock climbers due to the number of short single-pitch 10–20 metre rock climbing routes in the S to HS rock climbing grades. [1]
3.5 km to the south is the Aillwee Cave, a show cave over 1 kilometre (0.6 mi) long. Beside the Aillwee Caves, just 400-metres north of the upper car-park is the novice rock-climbing location of Aill na Cronain. For trained cave explorers, there is the Poll na Gollum, Faunarooska, and the Cullaun series.
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View with karst limestone pavement in foreground. Poulnabrone dolmen is located on a low circular mound measuring c. 10 m (33 ft) in diameter. The site is east of the Poulanine and Glensleade valleys, beyond which are the rocky Baur and Poulnabrucky hills.
The 'Very Dark Caves' featured in "The Mainland" were the Aillwee caves in the Burren, County Clare. Some exterior shots for the episode "And God Created Woman" were filmed in Dún Laoghaire, South County Dublin. The opening sequence (including shots of the Plassy shipwreck) were filmed over Inisheer — the smallest of the Aran Islands.