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	<title>Heart of Burren Walks</title>
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	<description>Walking in the Burren and Aran Islands</description>
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		<title>Holy Wells &#8211; Shrines of Redemption</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The cult of water in Ireland can be traced back to the Bronze Age (c. 2000-600 BC) at least. Many sacrificial deposits have been found in our lakes and rivers dating from that period. This form of religious expression to the gods continued into the Iron Age (c.600 BC &#8211; 400 AD). The most spectacular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life at the Crossroads Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The most social place of all was the crossroads here outside the Killinaboy post office. There was a huge tree and it was under that big tree people used to meet on a summer evening and we&#8217;d play pitch and toss and the older people would be talking about farming and local topics or who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Ordinary Pub</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The charismatic Lisdoonvarna publican Peter Curtin is in demand. It seems all the national media wants to talk to him. Yesterday it was the Irish Times. This morning it was Newstalk Radio. Peter is in the news because he has just launched the Burren Tolkien Society on two continents &#8211; North America and Lisdoonvarna! He is of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Burren Pigs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ireland imports around 75% of the food which its population eats. If the Oil Age ends, we are in deep trouble. That&#8217;s why I find stories of conservation farming, artisan food producers, farmers&#8217; markets and slow food restaurants so uplifting. Eva Harald rears free range pigs on her farm near the Burren gateway village of [...]]]></description>
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