mesolithic stone age 7000 bc ? 4000 bc bronze age 2000 bc ? 500 bc ? 500 ad neolithic stone age iron...

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