Category
page 1Buildings and structures in Ireland
Irish round tower
tower in the form of a slightly tapered cylinder with a conical roof, common in Ireland
clochán
thumb|right|A on the Dingle Peninsula, Kerry, Ireland
thumb|A reconstruction of a square-shaped beehive hut at the Irish National Heritage Park, County Wexford
A ' (plural ) or beehive hut' is a dry-stone hut with a corbelled roof, commonly associated with the south-western Irish seaboard. The precise construction date of most of these structures is unknown with the buildings belonging to a long-established Celtic tradition, though there is at present no direct evidence to date the surviving examples before . Some associated with religious sites may be pre-Romanesque, some consider that the mo
promontory fort
fortification, usually dating from the Iron Age