🕘 09:15 – Depart Corofin

• Bus Stop: Outside the Burren Information Centre, Corofin.
• Board the Burren and Cliffs Explorer Shuttle bus to the Slieve Carran trails.

🕘 10:05 – Arrive at Slieve Carran (Eagles Rock)

• Choose from 3 different walking loops, ranging from 15 – 45 minutes
• The pink route – 1km / 50m Ascent / 15 mins long / Moderate
• The Yellow Route – 2km / 40m Ascent/ 35 mins long / Moderate
• The Brown Route – 2.5km / 15m Ascent / 45 mins long / Moderate
• More information on trails available here

🕥 12:00 – Depart for Kilfenora

• Walk to the Slieve Carron (Eagles Rock) bus stop/li>
• Catch the bus to Kilfenora.

🕚 12:40 – Explore Kilfenora

• • Visit Kilfenora Cathedral and the High Crosses.
  • Explore the Burren Visitor Centre Experience.
  • Enjoy tea/coffee & sweet treat at the Burren Centre Café

OR

• Enjoy a leisurely lunch At Vaughans Pub Kilfenora

🕧 15:10 – Depart Kilfenora

• Return to the bus stop near the Burren Visitor Centre

🕐 15:25 – Arrive back in Corofin

• Bus Stop: Outside Burren Information Centre.
• Visit the Burren Information Centre for maps and local tips.

Clare Heritage & Genealogy Centre

If you are interested in tracing your roots why not visit the longest established genealogy centre in Ireland situated in Corofin village upstairs from the Burren National Park Information Point.  The Genealogy Centre houses the most comprehensive collection of records for Co. Clare.  Their highly informed and experienced staff can provide you with an outline of steps and source material to assist you in researching your family tree and can also compile an in-depth family history report. For more information, click here!

Bofey Quinns Bar & Restaurant

This family-run restaurant caters for families, with traditional music every Thursday to Saturday night. There is also a large outdoor beer garden. Enjoy delicious food, including locally sourced sirloin steak, fresh fish from Doolin, burgers, pizza, and lamb stew. They also offer vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free options, and special lunch offers.

Morning Dew Cafe

Art gallery and cafe in a converted pub featuring homemade breakfast and lunch items that showcase local ingredients. Vegan, vegetarian and gluten free options available. Located in the Burren National Park, this is the perfect place to have a warm meal before or after a hike and pick up some locally made cards, art, snacks and souvenirs to remember your trip.

Limestone Yoga

Operated by Colette Nagle, a qualified 500 hour Vinyasa flow Yoga Teacher, Pregnancy Yoga Teacher, Mother and Baby Yoga, Baby Massage Instructor, Children’s Yoga, and Teen Yoga Instructor together with her husband, Oliver. Limestone Yoga is open all year round in a safe environmentally friendly Yoga studio and retreat centre.

Dysart O’Dea Castle (3km from Corofin)

Dysert O’Dea Castle in County Clare is a former stronghold of the O’Dea clan. A 15th century tower house badly damaged by Cromwell’s forces in 1651. It was restored and reopened in 1986 and now houses an extensive museum, audio visual presentation and various fascinating exhibitions.

The Farmyard

The Farmyard is an educational haven offering people the opportunity to reconnect with nature. Activities include milking a cow, churning butter, farm walks or walks through the Burren, shearing a sheep, brown bread making, Irish dancing or Team challenges such as gathering the sheep, wellie throwing, archery and much more. The Farmyard is equipped with modern state of the art indoor and outdoor facilities. These include tea rooms where lunch options are available once arranged.

Carran Village

Carran Village is a picturesque small village located in the heart of the Burren.  It is notable mainly for being the birthplace of Michael Cusack, the inspirer and co-founder of the Gaelic Athletic Association. The Burren Way walking trail passes through the village. The village is also the trailhead for the Carran Loop, which follows minor roads, animal tracks and grassy lanes, taking in views of the Clab Valley, St Fachtnan’s Holy Well, part of Termon Hill and Carran Turlough. Accommodation is available in the village at the Clare’s Rock Hostel, which offers a great central location for exploring the Burren.

The Burren Perfumery

The Burren Perfumery draws inspiration from the flora and beauty of the Burren landscape to create its signature scents, artisan range of hand-crafted soaps, certified organic creams and candles using the very best natural and organic ingredients sourced from all around the world. A busy working factory, visitors are welcome free of charge and year-round to watch the Perfumery team members as they go about their daily tasks. All products are hand-made on-site and can be purchased in the Perfumery shop.

Heart of Burren Walks

Guided walks in the Burren County Clare. Walks usually last about 2.5 hours. Highlights include limestone pavement, wild flowers and archaeological monuments.

Irish Herbal Roots

Lisa Guinan is a professional and well renowned Irish Herbalist. Irish Herbal Roots offers guided herb walks to explore the native healing plants, tucked away behind the ancient stones. Traditional Irish medicine and folklore are both woven through this experience. Also offered are workshops on the art and craft of natural medicine making. Lisa demonstrates the entire process from wild herb harvesting to final product. Skin healing balms, muscle and joint balms, cough bottles and immune tonics are some of the herbal products that can be made. Lisa can be booked privately for a walk, a workshop or a combination of both.

The cliff face known as Eagle’s Rock is 327m high, shaped by the movement of glaciers in a south-westerly direction and provides nesting sites for Ravens and Peregrine Falcons. This is a good site to hear the cuckoo in spring and commonly frequented by the Burren’s other summer visitor, the wheatear. Yellowhammers, now rare in Ireland, can also be spotted here. Slow worms have been seen here and keep an eye out for common lizards basking on the rocks in warm weather.

The site is steeped in history with archaeological monuments such as fulacht fia and a turf thuile present. Ecclesiastical monuments associated with St. Colman McDuagh, who spent time here as a hermit in the 6th century before establishing the monastery at Kilmacduagh near Gort, remain here such as a medieval oratory and holy well. Many local folklore stories are still told today about McDuagh’s life.

Maps of the walking trails are available online here and are best accessed by the new Burren and Cliffs Explorer shuttle which serves two stops at Slieve Carran, 4 times a day.