• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to footer navigation
  • Skip to header navigation
  • Skip to privacy navigation
  • Skip to recipes navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Blog
  • Contact

Brooklyn Farm Girl

Cooking And Gardening in NYC

PopularPolish Cabbage Rolls
let's be friends
join my free recipe club!
  • New? Start Here
  • recipes
    • Course
      • Breakfast
      • Dessert
      • Dinner
      • Drinks
      • Snacks
    • Type
      • 30 Minute Meals
      • Breads
      • Budget
      • Canning
      • Casseroles
      • Cheesy
      • Cookies
      • Dips
      • Donuts
      • Holidays
      • Husband Favorites
      • Instant Pot
      • Keto
      • Kid Friendly
      • Muffins
      • Pasta
      • Potluck
      • Salads
      • Slow Cooker
      • Smoothies
      • Sneaky Vegetables
      • Soups
      • Sprinkles
    • Meat
      • Beef
      • Chicken
      • Pork
      • Turkey
      • Vegetarian
    • Cuisine
      • Chinese
      • Italian
      • Mexican
      • Pennsylvania Dutch
      • Vegetarian
  • Vegetable Index
  • Urban Gardening
    • Let’s Harvest
    • Tutorials
    • Garden Recipes
    • General Updates
    • Storing & Freezing
    • Seed Calendar
    • Compost in Brooklyn
  • About Me
    • About Pamela
    • Our Garden
  • Life & motherhood
    • Journal
    • Motherhood
    • Our Upstate Adventure
    • Cats, Cats, Cats
    • Crafts
  • Videos
  • PopularPolish Cabbage Rolls
Home life

A Trip to Ireland: Cliffs of Moher and the Burren

Posted:5/6/16
Updated:5/6/16

Join me as I take a trip to the beautiful Cliffs of Moher and the Burren!

In early April Matthew and I spoke at the Offset Festival in Dublin. It was lots of fun and we got to meet new friends while being inspired by other creatives.
R+R at Offset Dublin

(It was a big crowd in the beautiful Bord Gáis Energy Theatre.)
20160408_131704

Since we’ve never been to Ireland we wanted to take a day to go outside the city and see the beautiful green countryscapes that you see in postcards.  We took a day bus trip and drove across the country (Ireland is small, it only takes 3 hours to do this) to the Cliffs of Moher and the Buren.

The Cliffs of Moher are beautiful.  And totally scary if you’re afraid of heights.    The cliffs rise to almost 700 feet over the Atlantic Ocean.  There is a (kinda safe) path to walk along at the top, but a few sections were closed off so we had to go around them.  When going off path, there’s no safety wall blocking you from the Atlantic Ocean. I really loved the views, but I felt much safer when there was a waist high wall in between me and 700 feet below.

2016-04-11_11-32-41

Cliffs of Moher_7

Below you’ll see O’Brien’s Tower which is on the highest part of the Cliffs.
Cliffs of Moher_3

Cliffs of Moher_6

We had a lucky day where it wasn’t raining and not too windy, but windy enough to second guess looking too close to the edge.
Cliffs of Moher_2

After there we drove to what was probably my favorite place we visited in Ireland, the Burren.  The Burren is a small National Park which is a landscape of pretty much just rocks.  The landscapes are vast and rocky, with the ocean on one side and fields on the other.   I wish we would have gotten more time to spend here. If we go back I’d like to do a full day trip just to the Burren.
The Burren_8
The Burren_1

The Burren_4

The Burren_7

The landscape reminds me of what the Moon looks like.
The Burren_12

I loved driving down the roads with the Burren on both sides of us, seeing animals just hanging out with seemingly no gates to keep them in.  
20160411_140608

The Burren_10

20160411_134022

My favorite was this sleeping guy.
20160411_140714

Hope you enjoyed my pictures! Have you ever been to Ireland?  

As a member of a pretty cool team of influencers, I received the my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge from Verizon which took most of these photos.  No additional compensation was provided.  All opinions are my own.

Similar Recipes

  • Friday Catch Up: A Trip to Los Angeles
  • Our trip to Doha, Qatar – Part 2
  • Enceladus's First Big Road Trip to Maine!
  • Friday Catch Up: A Trip to Los Angeles

Reader Interactions

join the free recipe club

Receive My Favorite Recipes Straight To Your Inbox!

Thank you for subscribing!

Leave a Comment Cancel reply

I love hearing from you! Submit your question or recipe review here. Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Made this? Rate this recipe:




  1. kereta sewa klang says

    May 15, 2016 at 1:09 am

    what a great moments you’ve got.
    hope you enjoyed them.

    Reply
  2. Laura ~ Raise Your Garden says

    May 9, 2016 at 7:35 am

    So jealous of your trip, I’ll just have to live vicariously through you and those adorable cow pics. Sweet =) Until I get there, I guess I’m just popping in one of those dorky Rick Steves PBS Videos!!

    Reply
  3. renovate rumah says

    May 9, 2016 at 12:01 am

    I was privileged to read your post. and I left a comment. so great to meet you. I’m “following” you. I hope you have a great weekend

    Reply
  4. Jennifer @ WrittenByJennifer says

    May 6, 2016 at 10:37 am

    I visited Ireland when I was 14. My grandparents, there for a genealogy visit, rented a home for the month and each week two sets of their children and their families came for a visit. We toured the entire country and it was wonderful. We stumbled on an excavation of a castle and the people running it allowed us beyond the caution tape and peer into the excavated areas. I would love to go back to that castle one day. I also can’t wait to take our kids one day and trace our roots using my grandmother’s research.

    Reply
    • Pamela says

      May 7, 2016 at 5:03 pm

      Hey Jennifer, that sounds like a wonderful time! I bet you guys had lots of fun visiting the country. Isn’t it beautiful? I really wish we had more “free” days to spend, but hopefully next time!

      Reply
  5. grace says

    May 6, 2016 at 9:21 am

    we’re leaving for ireland for our honeymoon a week from today and spending two weeks traveling the country. i could not be more excited! the cliffs of moher are most definitely on our must-see list!

    Reply
    • Pamela says

      May 7, 2016 at 5:02 pm

      That is so exciting Grace! I can’t wait to see all your pictures! Tell me what you think of the Cliffs!

      Reply

Primary Sidebar

welcome!

Hi! I'm Pamela, an artist Mom who shares family recipes. My farm is a 1,000 sq ft apartment in NYC. Let's make dinner together.

Read More

join the free
recipe club!

Receive My Favorite Recipes Straight to Your Inbox!

Thank you for subscribing!

TOP POSTS

Half Sour Pickles

The Best Stewed Tomatoes Ever

Roasted Cherry Tomato Sauce

EASY Stuffed Pepper Casserole

Recipe Index
Vegetable Index
Follow On Facebook
Follow On Instagram
Free Recipe Club

fresh this week view all

4th of July Dessert Pie

Amish Buttered Noodles

How to Make Perfect Hard Boiled Eggs

Amish Coleslaw

As Featured On
free recipe club!
Get weekly recipes, videos, and gardening tips to your inbox!
join the club!
EST. 2013
let's be friends
  • Recipe Index
  • Veggie Index
  • Urban Gardening
  • Web Stories
Back To Top
© 2022 - All Rights Reserved
  • Privacy Policy & Terms
Site Credits Designed by Melissa Rose Design Developed by Once Coupled

join the recipe club!

Receive My Favorite Recipes Straight to Your Inbox!

Thank you for subscribing!

0 shares