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I just thought this was funny... lots of photos of the Cliffs of Moher on TE, but this just struck me for some reason. Along most of the coastline, particularly the most spectacular parts visited by tourists, there's a stone wall keeping people away from the edge. The cliffs literally drop off and plunge for hundreds of feet onto rocks below, but some people still need warning, and this seems to speak pretty much everyone's language! They need a few of these at the Dun Aengus site on the island of Inishmore, also; we also visited there and there is NO wall keeping you from the edge. According to our guide, several people are killed each year there because they venture too close, so tragedies evidently do occur from time to time.

The Cliffs of Moher site is one of the most spectacular in Ireland. They're located at the southwestern edge of the Burren in County Clare. The cliffs rise above the sea ranging from about 400 to more than 700 feet. On a clear day the Aran Islands in Galway are visible, as are the valleys and hills of Connemara. The cliffs consist mostly of shale and sandstone. The oldest layers are probably 300 million years old. The famous Atlantic Puffins, the penguin-like birds with colorful beaks live in large colonies at isolated parts of the cliffs.