Ancient Ireland Mesolithic Stone Age 7000 BC Neolithic

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

Mesolithic Hut Ring Fort / Rath Bronze Age House

Put in chronological order

Passage Tomb Dolmen Promontory Fort

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 Monastery Founder Location Description

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. .

Homework • Draw and label a monastery in your hardback copy. • Nice neat job • Make a list of new words and explain them (there about 10) • Workbook page

Clonmacnoise

Clonmacnoise

Glendalough

Glendalough

Skellig Michael