A Clochán aka "Beehive Huts"
A Clochán aka “Beehive huts”, Dingle Peninsula
A Clochán is a dry-stone hut with a corbelled roof, associated with the south-western Irish seaboard.
Dating the huts is difficult because the skill of corbelling has been used in Newgrange (3100 B.C.) and as recently as the 1950s.
These on this coast are believed to date (i.e. begun to be constructed) to the 12th century when the incoming Normans forced the Irish off the good land and out to the periphery of the Dingle Peninsula.
We only had a “photo opportunity” and no time given to be able to visit.
This was, I admit it, a big disappointment.