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Primary School Questions
Q1. What name is given to the cracks in the limestone pavement of the Burren?
Q2. What name given to rocks which have been carried and shaped by glaciers?
Q3. What name is given to the disappearing lakes found in the Burren?
Q4. How old is Poulnabrone portal tomb or dolmen?
Q5. If an earthen fort is called a rath, what name is given to a stone fort?
Q6. What is the name of the ancient cooking and bathing sites found in the Burren?
Q7. How many petals does the spring gentian have?
Q8. What is the name of the black and red moth found all over the Burren?
Q9. What does the word Burren, from the Irish word Boireann, mean?
Q10. What famous woman lived at Leamanagh castle?
Secondary School Questions
Q1. What word describes landscapes which have been formed by weathering of rock?
Q2. What name is given to the large blocks of limestone pavement found in the Burren?
Q3. What word is used to describe the scratches left by glaciers on the bedrock?
Q4. What is the most common form of Neolithic tomb found in the Burren?
Q5. Approximately how many stone forts or cahers are found in the Burren?
Q6. What are the man-made underground chamber often found close to ring forts called?
Q7. Name an artic-alpine plant found in the Burren?
Q8. What does the word feral mean (as in feral goat)?
Q9. What do the letters SAC stand for?
Q10. What Burren man had an orchid named after him?
Adult Questions
Q1. During what geological period was the limestone of the Burren laid down?
Q2. What name is given to large surface depressions found in karst areas like the Burren?
Q3. What is another word for a small solution pan or shallow pool on limestone?
Q4. Approximately how many wedge tombs are known from the Burren?
Q5. What are the small rectangular stone structures often found beside churches called?
Q6. What name is given to a projecting stone used to support a beam or other stonework?
Q7. What is the Latin name for the thyme broomrape plant?
Q8. Approximately how many butterfly species are found in the Burren?
Q9. What does the acronym REPS stand for?
Q10. Name the man known as the ‘Grandfather of Burren Archaeology’?
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