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Traditionally, an ''orri'' referred to an "enclosed area for gathering sheep" in the Eastern Pyrenees. In the late twentieth century, the word has taken on the meaning of "drystone hut" in Ariège.
Traditionally, an ''orri'' referred to an "enclosed area for gathering sheep" in the Eastern Pyrenees. In the late twentieth century, the word has taken on the meaning of "drystone hut" in Ariège.
Ariège ''orris''
In scholarly studies
In higher Vicdessos, a part of the French ''département'' of Ariège, the word ''orri'' traditionally referred to a summer mountain habitat consisting of an enclosed area for gathering sheep and a number of stone huts used as dwellings or for cheese making. In the 1960s, when the long-deserted ''orris'' of Ariège were rediscovered by scholars, their ancient name was erroneously construed as applying only to the "stone hut" used as a seasonal dwelling. Since then, the new meaning has caught on and is now prevalent in touristic literature.In touristic literature
An ''orri'' is a type of small stone hut found in the Ariège ''département''. ''Orris'' are dome-shaped, mortarless huts, often with a top made of slate or wood. Inside they contain just one low room, with half the floor space taken up by a bed made of wood or stone. ''Orris'' were mostly used as night shelters by shepherds and cowherds after sheep and cows were moved to higher ground for grazing in the summer and early autumn. They vary in their arrangements: some appear to stand alone; others are clustered in small groups. At times, especially among the clustered ''orris'', they were used for other purposes, such as food storage.Roussillon ''orris''
According to French scholar André Péré, in theRoussillon
Roussillon ( , , ; ca, Rosselló ; oc, Rosselhon ) is a historical province of France that largely corresponded to the County of Roussillon and part of the County of Cerdagne of the former Principality of Catalonia. It is part of the ...
region ''orri'' means "an enclosure surrounded by a dry stone wall in which young lambs or such animals are kept."André Péré, Les cabanes en pierres sèches des hautes vallées des Nestes (Aure et Louron) (Pyrénées centrales), in ''L'Architecture rurale'', CERAR (Paris), tome 3, 1979, pp. 62-67, in particular p. 62.
The name of the shepherd's hut was ''barraca'' in Catalan. 18th-century archival records in French contain mentions of ''orri'' and ''barraque'' (the Frenchified form of ''barraca'') as in "l'orri avec les barraques qui y sont construites pour la demeure des gardiens" ("the orri together with the barraques which are built in it to serve as abodes for the guardians").
See also
*Vernacular architecture
Vernacular architecture is building done outside any academic tradition, and without professional guidance. This category encompasses a wide range and variety of building types, with differing methods of construction, from around the world, bo ...
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