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Fahan Beehive Huts
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Willem VS
May 14, 2026
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The place called Fahan brings together more than 400 dry stone huts, gathered in small groups, circular forts and underground passages. These beehive-shaped huts are called clochán in Gaelic. Their …
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Maren
August 10, 2017
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Beehive hut, also beehive hut, engl. Beehive hut, ir. Clochán (from cloch "stone"), is the name for mostly round Kraggewölbebauten of dry stone, which are particularly to be found in the British Isles. The specimens here at Fahan were inhabited over 3000 years ago.
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