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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

The bodies were discovered at the property on Greenan Road, between Burren village and Newry city.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2023

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

From Washington Post Jul. 20, 2016

The hills of the Burren, an otherworldly landscape of limestone and flora, brood in the distance.

From New York Times Aug. 28, 2015

I heard of a man went to them dying on a cart, and he walked twenty miles home to Burren holding the horses head.

From Where There is Nothing Being Volume I of Plays for an Irish Theatre by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

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