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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 ...
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".
Beyond them is a herb garden and burial-ground with another enclosure closer to the sea. About 90 m (300 ft) east of the chapel is the Clochain - two partly reconstructed beehive huts that are the most visually striking remnant of the early settlement and the finest examples of this type of structure in Scotland.
Bothies are found in remote mountainous areas of Scotland, Northern England, Ulster and Wales. They are particularly common in the Scottish Highlands, but related buildings can be found around the world (for example, in the Nordic countries there are wilderness huts). A bothy was also a semi-legal drinking den on the Isle of Lewis.
Fahan is an area on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland, noted for a collection of clochán, or drystone beehive huts.Fahan lies below Mount Eagle on the southern coast of the Dingle peninsula, to the west of the fishing village of Ventry and to the east of the steep cliffs of Slea Head. [1]
Restored blackhouse in a museum on Trotternish, Skye. The origin of the name blackhouse is of some debate. On the Isle of Lewis, in particular, it seems to have been used to distinguish the older blackhouses from some of the newer white-houses (Irish: teach bán [ˌtʲax ˈbˠaːnˠ], teach geal [ˌtʲax ˈɟalˠ]; Scottish Gaelic: taigh-geal [t̪ʰə ˈkʲal̪ˠ]), with their harled (rendered ...
Beehive (hairstyle), a hairstyle shaped like a beehive; Beehive (LDS Church), a 12- or 13-year-old participant in the Young Women organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; The Bee-Hive, a 19th-century British trade union newspaper; Beehive burner, a conical wood waste burner; Beehive Cluster, a cluster of stars
Purchased from Forestry Commission Scotland under the National Forest Land Scheme [13] Galson Estate, Lewis: Jan 2007: Estate: Urras Oighreachd Ghabhsainn (Galson Estate Trust) £1,200,000 22,600 55,800: 14] Cultybraggan Camp, Comrie Sep 2007: Former prisoner of war camp: Comrie Development Trust: £350,000 36 100: 15] Kinloch village, Rùm ...