The shifting glaciers of the Ice Age helped to shape the Burren – scouring and gouging the dramatic limestone outcrops…
…depositing fertile soils along valleys and hillsides … and carrying giant boulders over huge distances before discarding them at random...
Water has played its part too – finding its way into minute fissures and joints and eating away at the soft limestone to scoop out hollows, grooves, pits and great gullies known as grykes.