Beehive Huts    Cathair na gConchúireach - Caher Conor

Beehive Huts are open all year round Ringforts are the most numerous and widespread filed monuments in Ireland. These sites wrere commonly referrred to by the terms Fort, ráth, lios, cathair or caiseal, the individual site names often incorporating one or other of these terms. Ráth and lios usually apply to earthen banked ringforts and cathair or caiseal to stone cashels.
 Open all year round
small admission fee

Beehive Huts are open all year round The majority of these were enclosed farmsteads of the free farmers of the Early Christian Period, the banks and fosses acting as a fence to prevent livestock from straying and to protect against cattle raiders and wild animals. The small size of the sites suggests they were occupied by a single family, the houses, farm buildings and storage places occuring within the enclosed space. They would have been inhabited from ancient times to 1200 AD.
This Cashel is called Cathair na gConchúireach (Caher Conor). It is now occupied by 5 structures, one souterrain is visible and one of the structural stones in the cashel wall bears an inscribed cross.

Location of Beehives on Slea Head Route Location :

From Dingle Town (An Daingean) follow the reoad signs Slea Head Route , past the Village of Ventry


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