Mesolithic Stone Age 7000 BC ? 4000 BC Bronze Age 2000 BC ? 500 BC ? 500 AD Neolithic Stone Age Iron Age Celts Christianity Ancient Ireland
Mesolithic Hut Bronze Age House Ring Fort / Rath
Put in chronological order
Passage Tomb Promontory Fort Dolmen
Put in chronological order
The Roman Empire
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? What does he look like? Key words? What is his life like? Key words?
Monks 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?
Monasteries of Ireland MonasteryFounderLocationDescription
Write these words in homework copies and explain each Monastery walls for Refectory was where… Scriptorium was where… Guesthouses were for… Church was where… Abbot’s house… Monks cells were where…. Round towers were where Vegetable garden…. Celtic crosses and cist graves.... Do you know what these words mean? Where are these things found?
Homework Draw and label a monastery in your hardback copy. Nice neat job Make a list of new words and explain them (there are about 10) Workbook page
Clonmacnoise
Glendalough
Skellig Michael