A clochán (pluralclocháin) 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 surviving examples before c. 700 CE.[1] Some associated with religious sites may be pre-Romanesque, some consider that the most fully intact structures date after the 12th century or later.[2][3] It is where monks lived.
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They are most commonly round beehive huts, but rectangular plans are known as well. It has been suggested that the rectangular footprints date to a later era. Some clochán are not completely built of stone and may have possessed a thatched roof.[1] The walls are very thick, up to 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in). Sometimes several clochans are joined by their walls.[3]
^Alex Weinburg (2 January 2018). "The Real-World Architecture of Luke Skywalker's Jedi Hideaway". Atlas Obscura. The ancient Jedi shelter where Luke Skywalker resides is a very terrestrial building type called a clochán, a primitive stone dwelling that can still be found on Skellig Michael. These structures, also called beehive huts, were built by the ascetic Christian monks who first settled the island in the 6th or 7th century.
^"Ceann Sibéal - Star Wars Film Location for 'The Last Jedi'". DinglePeninsula.ie. Archived from the original on 17 February 2019. Retrieved 16 February 2019. A collection of beehive-shaped huts was built to reproduce the beehive huts of Skellig Micheal. Construction workers built a road across local farmland to bring the trucks, scaffolding, lighting, trailers, food, props and people up to the closed set. Lucasfilm later thanked locals for their support and hospitality.
