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Bookings are filling up!! Teacher Training Summer Courses 2017 Áitbheo Trainers: Using your local place as a teaching resource   WHEN: 3rd-7th July or 17th – 21st July 2017, Kinvara & the Burren The objective of this course is to provide primary schoolteachers, other educators, and people with an interest in their local place and community with […]

The annual arrival of the Burren’s world famous wildflowers is truly spectacular – the Burrenbeo Trust’s Burren in Bloom festival is a celebration of this, opening the magic of this landscape to all. Running from 19th May to the 4th June with the majority of events from the 19th-21st May, Burren in Bloom 2017 will […]

How do we develop our sense of place? What are the potential implications of disconnection from place? Are there ways that local place and community resources can be incorporated into education and learning?

The annual arrival of the Burren’s world famous wildflowers is truly spectacular – the Burrenbeo Trust’s Burren in Bloom festival is a celebration of this, opening the magic of this landscape to all.  The draft programme for this event is now ready to see so you can plan your early summer in the Burren! Running […]

Happy 8th Birthday to Burrenbeo Trust!!! On the 8th December 2008, Burrenbeo Trust was launched by international conservationist David Bellamy in a celebration with hundreds of people in attendance. We are thrilled with what we have achieved so far with many more good things still to come. If you would like to see some pretty […]

Fingers crossed for our most dedicated volunteer Richie Jones who has been shortlisted for the national Volunteer of the Year award in the wildlife category. Richie has an outstanding BCV attendance of 74 events in the last 6 years and has been a dedicated member of the BCV committee since it was established. Not only […]

This October Bank Holiday weekend why not join some of the farmer custodians of the landscape as they share the secrets of their hills? For hundreds of years, Burren farmers have marked the end of summer by herding their cattle up onto winter pastures in the limestone uplands, in the tradition known as winterage and […]

The Burren is a unique place; fitting then that it is the location of one of Ireland’s most unique and authentic community celebrations. The Burren Winterage Weekend celebrates  the extraordinary story of how generations of Burren farmers have, through their unique pastoral farming systems, shaped what is widely regarded as Ireland’s richest landscape in terms […]

The annual Burren Winterage Weekend festival will take place this year from October 27th – 30th. This unique celebration of pastoral farming and its rich legacy of natural and cultural heritage will feature the winterage cattle drove, food fayre, herdsman’s walks, farm demonstration events and much more. To kickstart the festival will be the Burren Winterage […]

As part of Heritage Week this week, Burrenbeo Trust carried out a slightly different type of heritage walk than usual.  This Walk with a Difference was in association with the Irish Wheelchair Association from the Clare, and Limerick branches, and the Brothers of Charity Ennis branch.  The event aimed at introducing the Burren to wheelchair […]