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Old Stone Age

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Pre-8000 B.C.

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Middle Stone Age

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8000 B.C. - 3500 B.C.

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New Stone Age

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3500 B.C. - 2000 B.C.

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Mesolithic

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Middle Stone Age

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Mount Sandle Co. Derry

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Earliest evidence of human settlers.

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Nomad

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Move from place to place.

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Hunter-gatherer

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A human being who hunts animals and gathers plants for food, moving to a different location whenever such food becomes scarce.

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Microlites

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Mesolithic tool made from flint.

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Neolithic

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New Stone Age.

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Wattle

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Posts with branches woven between them.

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Daub

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Mixture of mud and straw applied like plaster.

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First farmers

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Neolithic people.

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13
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Scraper

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Used to clean animal skin.

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14
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Megalithic

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Big stone.

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Portal Dolmen

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Stone table.

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Court Cairn

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Tomb with a small entrance area, made from stone and covered with earth.

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Passage Grave

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Tomb with a long passage leading to a burial chamber.

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Newgrange

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Passage grave in the Boyne Valley.

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Kerbstone

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Large stone decorated with spirals and zigzags surrounding passage graves.

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Bronze Age

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2000 B.C. - 500 B.C.

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Smelting

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Melting metal out of rock.

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Fulacht Fiadh

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Water filled pit used to cook food.

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Lunula

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Bronze Age necklace.

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24
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Wedge tomb and cist grave

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Bronze age tombs

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The Celts/Iron Age

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500 B.C. - 500 A.D.

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Siculus

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Roman who wrote about the Celts.

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Ogham stone

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Standing stone with the alphabet carved into the side.

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Ringfort

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A circular bank of earth surrounded by a trench.

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Hillfort

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Celtic settlement built on the top of hills, which offered greater protection to inhabitants.

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Dun Aengus

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Promontory fort build on the edge of a cliff.

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Crannog

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House built on the middle of a lake for greater protection.

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Torc

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Celtic necklace.

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Brat

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Long woolen cloak worn by Celts.

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Leine

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Knee-length tunic worn by Celtic men.

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Bracac

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Trousers worn by poor Celtic men under their brat.

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Rotary quern

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Used to grind grain into flour.

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Flax

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Made into linen.

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FIle

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Celtic poet.

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Baire

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Game like hurling.

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Ficheall

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Celtic chess.

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Daghda

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Celtic god of the afterlife.

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Lug

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Celtic god of war.

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Druid

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Pagan Celtic priest.

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Samhain, Imbolc, Bealtaine, Lughnasa.

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Celtic festivals.

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Tuath

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Celtic kingdom.

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Ri

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Celtic king.

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Aos Dana

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Most important people in each tuath.

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Brehon

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Celtic judge.

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Queen Medb

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Powerful Celtic woman.

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Early Christian Ireland.

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Emperor Constantine

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Converted the Roman empire to Christianity in 312 A.D.

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431 A.D.

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Palladius sent to Ireland.

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432 A.D.

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Patrick arrives in Ireland.

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Skellig Michael

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Remote location for Early Christian monastery. Bee-hive cells also found here.

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Oratory

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Early Christian Church.

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Refectory

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Early Christian dining room.

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Casula

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Uncomfortable cloak worn by early Christian monks.

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Tonsure

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Type of haircut that early Christian monks had. Consisted of a bald patch being shaved into the crown of the head.

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Abbot

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Head of an early Christian monastery.

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Matins

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Morning prayers said by early Christian monks.

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Vespers

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Evening prayers said by early Christian monks.

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Scriptorium

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Room where the Bible was studied and copied by early Christian monks.

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St. Colmcille

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Missionary who set up a monastery on Iona.

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The Book of Kells

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Example of an early Christian manuscript.

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