Bee Boles

From the notes of the owner and recorder, Lorna Elms:

The Bee Boles site incorporates eight rectangular recesses along a stretch of stone wall. The stone wall follows the line of the esker, half way down the slope, from SW to NE.

• All of the recesses have a sandstone slab lintel and a stone slab floor.

• Six are relatively intact and two are partially collapsed (walls relatively intact with lintel

  dislodged by tree growth.

• Boles numbers 1 & 2 are approximately 4 inches off the ground, the floors of the rest are at

  ground level. However, as the wall horizontally crosses a steep slope it is likely that the earth

  has built up over 150 years raising the height of the ground level.

• There is a small stone hut located close by.

• When visiting from Co Cork in c. 2000, the great granddaughter of the original landholder,

  Tom Finn, told us that these recesses were used for keeping bees.