Ancient Ireland
Mesolithic
Stone Age
7000 BC
Neolithic
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Stone Age
4000 BC
Bronze
Age
2000 BC
Iron?Age
Celts
500 BC
Christianity
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500 AD
Mesolithic Hut
Ring Fort / Rath
Bronze Age House
Put in chronological order
Passage Tomb
Dolmen
Promontory Fort
Put in chronological order
St Patrick was taken from Roman
Britain and enslaved by the Celts of
Ireland
“I was then about sixteen years of age. I did
not know the true God. I was taken into
captivity to Ireland with many thousands of
people”
St Patrick
What does a monk look like?
• Key words?
Monks
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What did they look like?
What did they do all day?
Where did they live?
Where did they build their monasteries?
Name 3 large monasteries.
Name 1 small remote monastery
Who founded them?
Write these words in homework
copies and explain each
Monastery walls for
Do you know what these
Refectory was where… words mean?
Scriptorium was where…
Where are these things
Guesthouses were for… found?
Church was where…
Abbot’s house…
Monks cells were where….
Round towers were where
Vegetable garden….
Celtic crosses and cist graves....
Clonmacnoise
Clonmacnoise
Glendalough
Glendalough
Skellig Michael
Services Provided by Monasteries
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Religious Services
Alms
Health care (herbs)
Hospitality
Education
Early Christian Art
• Manuscripts
• Stone Crosses
• Metalwork
Book of Kells
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Scribes
Scriptorium
Scriptorium
Vellum
Parchment
Inks made from
beetles, berries and
plants
• Gospels
• Latin
Cross of Muiredeach,
Monasterboice, Co Louth
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Masons
Images
Illiterate people
Support
Top a tiny church
Metalwork
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Silver & Gold
Chalices
Croziers
Relinquiries
Celtic designs or
filigree
Silver, with
bronze and
glass studs
Where other people live in Early
Christian times
• Ring forts or raths
• Crannogs
• Wattle and daub houses with thatch roofs
Rath / Ringfort
Key
Words
Ditch
Bank
Timber
Fence
Souterrain
Crannog
Artificial
Island
Sunken
stepping
stones
Bridge
Boat
Expensive
to build