bee shelter

[worker]

it is very like an out door oven, and very similar to the house picture but the door is screwed on.
saw it at a nature reserve near Lurgan in N.Ireland while visiting with the kids

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

it is very like an out door oven, and very similar to the house picture but the door is screwed on.
saw it at a nature reserve near Lurgan in N.Ireland while visiting with the kids

You've answered the question then - it's either an oven (bread ovens were often communal and built outdoors) or a pigsty - my photograph was of a pigsty at Saint Fagans museum - originally at Hendre Ifan Prosser (the hoestead of Ifan Prosser) in Glanmorgan

 

[Little John]

Just wondering....you're not talking about a clochán are you? They are called beehive huts or shelters, but they were for people to live in.

I wonder if that's where the confusion is creeping in ? Beehive shelters being of 'beehive shape' - not for keeping a beehive within ...
LJ

 

[worker]

no they are definitely for keeping bees in i asked what they were and was told a beehive shelter to place hives inside,but no one was able to explain how they worked.

 

[Edwardking]

Take a look at the excellent documentary 'More Than Honey' - there's some beautiful bee shelters featured - both historic and up to date.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

no they are definitely for keeping bees in i asked what they were and was told a beehive shelter to place hives inside,but no one was able to explain how they worked.

Yes, but you cannot always depend on the guide getting the facts right either. A colleague of mine went to Alnwick Castle a few years ago to be told by the guide that a 'Fuller' was so called because he was paid to spend all day drinking ale until he was full then peeing into a bucket to supply urine for the dyeing process!

 

[worker]

i contacted the site it seems they are a unique one of a kind concept, and to be trialed next year lol

but thank you all for your help. i will go back in a year or so and see how they go.

Worker x

 

[Madge]

i contacted the site it seems they are a unique one of a kind concept, and to be trialed next year lol ...

Does that mean it's a new building? Can't you contact them again and ask for a photo? I'm curious.
Kitta

 

[Dishmop]

Hi i have been keeping for 3 years now and LOVE it.
would love some advice I have recently seen large stone structures used for housing beehives just wondering if anyone knows how and if a beehive stone shelter works

worker

Put a hive in your garage and see what happens.