2. Mesolithic Stone Age 7000 BC ? 4000 BC Bronze Age 2000 BC ? 500 BC ? 500 AD Neolithic Stone Age Iron Age Celts Christianity Ancient Ireland

3. Mesolithic Hut Bronze Age House Ring Fort / Rath

4. Put in chronological order

5. Passage Tomb Promontory Fort Dolmen

6. Put in chronological order

7. 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

8. What does a monk look like? Key words?

10. 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?

12. 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?

13. Clonmacnoise

18. Glendalough

21. Skellig Michael

23. Services Provided by Monasteries Religious Services Alms Health care (herbs) Hospitality Education

24. Early Christian Art Manuscripts Stone Crosses Metalwork

25. Book of Kells Scribes Scriptorium Vellum Parchment Inks made from beetles, berries and plants Gospels Latin

26. Cross of Muiredeach, Monasterboice, Co Louth Masons Images Illiterate people Support Top a tiny church

27. Metalwork Silver & Gold Chalices Croziers Relinquiries Celtic designs or filigree Silver, with bronze and glass studs

29. Where other people live in Early Christian times Ring forts or raths Crannogs Wattle and daub houses with thatch roofs

31. Rath / Ringfort Key Words Ditch Bank Timber Fence Souterrain

32. Crannog Artificial Island Sunken stepping stones Bridge Boat Expensive to build