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Burren

British  
/ ˈbʌrən /

noun

  1. a limestone area on the North Clare coast in the Irish Republic, famous for its wild flowers, caves, and dolmens

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“There is a very good chance there will be a bidding war,” said Massimo Stabilini, a London-based hedge-fund manager at Burren Capital Advisors and Warner shareholder.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2025

Police were called to the property in Burren Meadow in Newcastle at about 05:35 BST on Sunday.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2018

Robert Burren Morgan, a son of farmers, was born Oct.

From Washington Post • Jul. 20, 2016

Lately it has been asserted that Tolkien was also guided by the gloomy strangeness of the Burren in western Ireland, a stony netherworld whose beauty and bleakness can seem one and the same.

From Slate • Dec. 12, 2013

In pre-historic times all this country side at the foot of Burren, from Gort to Loughrea, and for miles apart, is said to have been the favourite hunting-ground of Queen Maev.

From The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway by Praeger, Robert Lloyd

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