Bauten und Ruinen. Rundturm aus dem 12. Poulnabrone Dolmen weitaus bekannte Portalgrab aus der Jungsteinzeit. There is a wide range of ringfort and stone ringforts to be found in the Irish Landscape. Less common than simple ringfort are these platform ringforts, some of them several metres high.
Beehive huts derive their name from their shape, reminiscent of traditional bee hives made of straw.
Built with drystone without mortar they served as monastic cells in the west of Ireland where stone abounds and other building material were hard to come by in Early Christian times. Their origins may, however, go back to prehistoric times. Deutscher Text . Gallarus Oratory, Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, is uniquely preserved in this form of an early stone church. Gallarus Gebetshaus auf der Dingle Halbinsel, County Kerry, einzigartig in dieser Form erhalten.