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The wall itself, O'Brien's Tower on the high point, the sea stack at its foot,
the birds that nest on it and the Burren behind it — photographed by the operators who run the
Ireland Cliffs of Moher tour listed here.
What the photographs show, and a figure cannot, is that these cliffs are a wall rather than a
hill. Two hundred and fourteen metres at the highest point. Almost fourteen kilometres end to
end. Stacked in horizontal bands of shale and sandstone you can count from the viewing platform.
The same rock is quarried inland at Liscannor and stands in the flagstone walls along the path.
The frames taken from the water are worth looking at beside the ones taken from the top. From
the cliff top the wall is a skyline. From the deck of the Doolin cruise it is a ceiling, and the
boat is the scale bar.
Not every frame here is the wall itself. The Burren is inland from it and the road to the
cliffs crosses it, so Poulnabrone Dolmen and the limestone pavement are part of the same day for
most visitors. Goat Island is the low island off the south platform where the puffins nest. The
Aran Islands sit out in Galway Bay on a clear horizon, and Inis Oírr — the nearest of them — is
the one the Doolin ferries reach. The coast road tying all of it together is the Wild Atlantic
Way.
Captions say what is in the frame and stop. A place is named only where the frame makes it
unmistakable, so a village on the road to the cliffs is called exactly that.
The Cliffs of Moher running north, with a sea stack standing off the foot of the wallThe sheer face of the Cliffs of Moher, its shale and sandstone stacked in horizontal bandsAtlantic swell breaking green at the base of the Cliffs of MoherThe cliff wall seen from the main viewing point, curving away to the northLate light on the Cliffs of Moher, the sea stack standing clear of the wallThe full run of the Cliffs of Moher, almost fourteen kilometres of County Clare coastThe Cliffs of Moher from the northern end of the cliff pathShallow turquoise water in the bay below the Cliffs of MoherThe bay below the Cliffs of Moher, with the sea stack at the far end of the wallThe Cliffs of Moher wall under grey cloud, the grass running right to the edgeThe Cliffs of Moher fading north into sea haze, O'Brien's Tower just visible on the far headlandThe near-vertical drop of the Cliffs of Moher, taken from the cliff topO'Brien's Tower on the high point of the Cliffs of Moher, silhouetted at sunsetO'Brien's Tower, built in 1835, standing above the Atlantic at the top of the cliffsThe sea stack below the Cliffs of Moher, the cliff wall rising behind itPuffins on the cliff edge among sea pinks, ashore to nest between late May and mid-JulyA pair of puffins on the grass at the cliff edgePuffins at their nesting ground on the Cliffs of Moher, the colony on Goat Island offshoreSunset over the Cliffs of Moher, which face due west into the AtlanticThe full wall of the Cliffs of Moher under a low evening sunLight breaking through cloud over the Cliffs of MoherThe cliff face in gold evening light, looking south along the wallSea pinks in flower on the cliff edge at the Cliffs of Moher, with the wall beyondCushions of sea thrift on the cliff top above the Cliffs of Moher at sunsetA cruise boat at the base of the Cliffs of Moher, dwarfed by the wall above itA cliffs cruise passing the sea stack at the foot of the Cliffs of MoherLooking up at the Cliffs of Moher from the deck of the Doolin cruiseThe cliff-top path at the Cliffs of Moher, running north through the grassThe Liscannor flagstone wall along the cliff edge, with the Cliffs of Moher beyondA horse grazing on the grass above the Cliffs of MoherThe limestone pavement of the Burren, the karst landscape inland from the cliffsDry stone walls dividing the Burren's limestone fieldsPoulnabrone Dolmen, the portal tomb standing on the Burren limestoneSheep grazing the thin grass on the BurrenDunguaire Castle on the shore at Kinvara, passed on the road south from GalwayPainted shopfronts and a thatched cottage in a County Clare village on the road to the cliffsA Wild Atlantic Way signpost on the coast road in County ClareInis Oírr, the smallest of the Aran Islands, an hour's sailing from DoolinThe rusting hull of the Plassey on the shore of Inis Oírr
