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A clochán on the Dingle Peninsula, Kerry, Ireland A reconstruction of a square-shaped beehive hut at the Irish National Heritage Park, County Wexford. A clochán (plural clocháin) or beehive hut is a dry-stone hut with a corbelled roof, commonly associated with the south-western Irish seaboard.
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]
Within Northern Ireland there is the acceptance that some Non-Native animals, such as Honey Bees, are "important to the economy", [41] while within the Republic of Ireland, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine's website refers to the honey bee, and in particular the sub-species A. m. mellifera as the "Native Irish Honey Bee ...
A lacework of ancient stone walls across all three islands (1,600 km or 1,000 mi in all) encloses networks of small fields to contain local livestock. Also found are early clocháns (dry-stone beehive huts from the early-Christian period). Enda of Aran founded the first true Irish monastery near Killeany (Cill Éinne or Church of Enda). In time ...
A beehive is an enclosed structure where some honey bee species of the subgenus Apis live and raise their young. Though the word beehive is used to describe the nest of any bee colony, scientific and professional literature distinguishes nest from hive .
Skellig Michael (Irish: Sceilg Mhichíl [ˌʃcɛlʲəɟ ˈvʲɪçiːlʲ]), also called Great Skellig (Irish: Sceilig Mhór [ˈʃcɛlʲəɟ woːɾˠ]), is a twin-pinnacled crag 11.6 kilometres (7.2 mi) west of the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland.
St. Gobnet's Church is a medieval church and National Monument located on Inisheer, Ireland. [2] [3] ... The remains of her beehive hut are said to be on Inisheer ...
Glanfahan is a townland on the Dingle Peninsula, Ireland, ... An oval-shaped stone cashel containing three beehive huts. [14] [15] [16] Cahermurphy.