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A clochán (plural clocháin) 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 ...
The Sedan Beehive stone huts are a provincial heritage site in Lindley in the Free State province of South Africa.. In 1950 it was described in the Government Gazette as . A group of pre-historic stone huts; the terrain contains remainings of a settlement from the early Sotho culture.
The Italian term trullo (from the Greek word τρούλος, cupola) refers to a house whose internal space is covered by a dry stone corbelled or keystone vault. Trullo is an Italianized form of the dialectal term, truddu, used in a specific area of the Salentine peninsula (i.e. Lizzaio, Maruggio, and Avetrana, in other words, outside the Murgia dei Trulli proper), where it is the name of the ...
Umjip (Korean: 움집) were pit-houses that were used for housing in prehistoric Korea. These huts were widely used in Korea from the Neolithic Age until the Three Kingdoms period. [1] [2] The floor of the hut would be dug below the ground level. In colder regions, the pit would be around 1 m (3.3 ft) deep, and in warmer around half that depth.
A "shieling" is a summer dwelling on a seasonal pasture high in the hills. [4] The first recorded use of the term is from 1568. [5] The word "shieling" comes from "shiel", from the forms schele or shale in the Northern dialect of Middle English, likely related to Old Frisian skul meaning "hiding place" and to Old Norse Skjol meaning "shelter" and Skali meaning "hut".
The site is believed to have been in use since the 6th century. According to traditional tales, Saint Gobnait fled from County Clare to Inisheer to escape a family feud. . Later, an angel appeared to her and told her to return to the mainland and go south until she saw nine white deer; she settled at Ballyvourney and built a religious communit
Ronald Rael, an architect and author of the book entitled Earth Architecture, has observed that the Musgum houses are of "a catenary arch—the ideal mathematical form," which can withstand the load of the building with minimum use of material. [8]
A girna near the Sopu Tower in the limits of Nadur, Gozo [1]. A girna (plural giren) is a type of traditional corbelled hut found in rural areas in parts of Malta. [2] They bear similarities with a number of dry stone vernacular building types found in other Mediterranean countries, and they are primarily used for storage or as temporary shelters.