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trullo
thumb|300px|Row of trullo houses on Monte Pertica street in Alberobello, [[Bari Province, Apulia, southern Italy]]
A trullo (plural, trulli) is a traditional Apulian dry stone hut with a conical roof. Their style of construction is specific to the Itria Valley, in the Murge area of the Italian region of Apulia. Trulli were generally constructed as temporary field shelters and storehouses or as permanent dwellings by small proprietors or agricultural labourers. In the town of Alberobello, in the province of Bari, whole districts contain dense concentrations of trulli. The golden age of trulli w
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
tower houses in the Balkans
tower houses in the Balkans during the Ottoman period
The Stone house
stone house and architectural monument located between Celorico de Basto and Fafe
shieling hut
Abbot Pass hut
building in Alberta, Canada