In Search Of The Bloody Cranesbill

It helped when we discovered it was a flower. Von was on the hunt for all the wild flowers she could photograph.

 The Burren is a very unique area with both flowers from cold, northerly regions brought by the glaciers and flowers from warm, Mediterranean regions brought by ?.The eastern part of the Burren, called Mullaghmore, is more rugged and wild than the western part.

 We all enjoyed wandering over this lunar landscape peering into nooks and crannies in the gray rocks. Some of the tiny spaces held beautiful and some bizarre. 

In the 1640’s, Oliver Cromwell’s surveyor wrote “a savage land, yielding neither water enough to drown a man, nor tree to hang him, nor soil enough to bury him”. But then old Oliver wasn’t too interested in wild flowers. 

We found the Bloody Cranesbill

 and were lucky enough to spot a Fragrant Orchid.

I became enamoured with the walls of the Burren so now everyone else must too.

Following the suggestion of a guy called Bob that we met in a pub, we followed some signs to the Burren Perfumery.

This is a place where they extract the essential oils from Burren flowers to create a selection of perfumes, lotions and soaps. They also do a mean apple pie. It was a peaceful place to spend the afternoon.