Coppice is "an area of woodland in which the trees or shrubs are, or formerly were, periodically cut back to ground level to stimulate growth and provided firewood or timber" Oxford Dictionary of English.

The rich coppicing tradition of the Burren has almost died out.
Indeed, the decline of coppicing and farming in the Burren hills over the last fifty years or so has meant an incremental "greening" of the distinctly stony landscape.