Cliffs of Moher, Co. ClareMost people see these cliffs from the path near O'Brien's Tower. I wanted to see them the way the gannets do. That evening the wind was fierce from the southwest, and late sun poured in low from the opposite direction, raking across every exposed layer of rock on those faces. The Cliffs of Moher run for fourteen kilometres along the Clare coast, and the sedimentary bands in them are over 300 million years old. Namurian shale and sandstone, laid down