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 .
5-460: 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
10-451: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Vicdessos Vicdessos ( French pronunciation: [vikdəso] ; Occitan : Vic de Sòs ) is a former commune in the Ariège department in southwestern France . On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Val-de-Sos . The area of Vicdessos is about 6.01 km2 with a minimum elevation of 652 meters and
15-586: The "stone hut" used as a seasonal dwelling. Since then, the new meaning has caught on and is now prevalent 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
20-523: 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"). This article about a French building or structure
25-483: 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. According to French scholar André Péré, in the Roussillon region orri means "an enclosure surrounded by a dry stone wall in which young lambs or such animals are kept." The name of
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