{"id":2639,"date":"2018-07-06T11:35:30","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T11:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/ireland\/?p=2639"},"modified":"2018-10-06T11:58:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T11:58:30","slug":"caves-in-the-burren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/ireland\/2018\/07\/caves-in-the-burren\/","title":{"rendered":"Caves in the Burren"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Burren is a fascinating part of Ireland, a truly unique place.\u00a0 There are incredible panoramas with castles and ruins, dolmens,\u00a0 standing stones, forts and portal tombs,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You can’t see it, but under the Burren is networked with caves.
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\"Caves

Cave in the Burren
Photo by Sometimes Incoherent<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

Water drains into these cracks and creates caves, forming an extensive network. More than 31 miles have been mapped.<\/p>\n

\"The

The Great Stalactite in Doolin Cave in the Burren, Ireland
Photo by Rene Scaunce<\/p><\/div>\n

Poll an Ionain is a limestone cave near Doolin in County Clare. It has the longest free-hanging stalactite in Europe, the third longest in the world.<\/p>\n

\"Stalactites

Stalactites in Aillwee Cave
Photo by Charles W Glynn<\/p><\/div>\n

Aillwee Cave<\/h2>\n

Aillwee Cave tour includes extraordinary stalactites, stalagmites, and other rock formations.<\/p>\n

\"Waterfall

Waterfall in Aillwee Cave
Photo by Marvin Vells<\/p><\/div>\n

Aillwee Cave has a spectacular underground waterfall.<\/p>\n

There are also traces of brown bears in Aillwee Cave. Brown Bears have been extinct in Ireland for more than a thousand years. Cave explorers found signs that Brown Bears hibernated in Aillwee Cave, where the temperature stays at 50 degrees Fahrenheit all year.<\/p>\n

There is also a caf\u00e9 and gift shop.<\/p>\n

The Underground Burren
\nMore about Poll an Ionain, Doolin Cave and Aillwee Cave ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Burren is a fascinating part of Ireland, a truly unique place.\u00a0 There are incredible panoramas with castles and ruins, dolmens,\u00a0 standing stones, forts and portal tombs,\u00a0 You can’t see it, but under the Burren is networked with caves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-natural-wonders"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.design42.com\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/featured-Aillwee-Cave.jpg?fit=750%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eR8A-Gz","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/ireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/ireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/ireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/ireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/ireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2639"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/ireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2648,"href":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/ireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions\/2648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/ireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/ireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/ireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.design42.com\/ireland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}