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Sign in to savethumb|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
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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 most fully intact structures date after the 12th century or later. It is where monks lived.
==Form== They are most commonly round beehive huts, but rectangular plans are known as well. It has been suggested that the rectangular footprints date to a later era. Some are not completely built of stone and may have possessed a thatched roof. The walls are very thick, up to . Sometimes several are joined by their walls.