MesolithicStone Age
7000 BC
?
4000 BC
Bronze Age
2000 BC
?
500 BC
?
500 AD
Neolithic Stone Age
Iron AgeCelts
Christianity
Ancient Ireland
Mesolithic Hut
Bronze Age House
Ring Fort / Rath
Put in chronological order
Passage Tomb
Promontory Fort
Dolmen
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
• 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 forRefectory was where…Scriptorium was where…Guesthouses were for…Church was where…Abbot’s house…Monks cells were where….Round towers were whereVegetable garden….Celtic crosses and cist graves....
Do you know what these words mean?
Where are these things found?
Clonmacnoise
Clonmacnoise
Glendalough
Glendalough
Skellig Michael
Services Provided by Monasteries
• Religious Services
• Alms
• Health care (herbs)
• Hospitality
• Education
Early Christian Art
• Manuscripts
• Stone Crosses
• Metalwork
Book of Kells
• Scribes• Scriptorium• Scriptorium• Vellum• Parchment• Inks made from
beetles, berries and plants
• Gospels• Latin
Cross of Muiredeach, Monasterboice, Co Louth
• Masons• Images• Illiterate people• Support• Top a tiny church
Metalwork
• 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
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