Chapter 3 Nesolithic Ireland

Question 1

What skills and when did the first farmers come to Ireland

Answer 1

They came between 4000-3500 BCE

The new skills they brought where farming bread making tomb building and pottery making

Question 2

How did they make bread

What did they use clay pots for

Answer 2

They ground wheat and flour on a saddle stone

Used to store food tools and ashes of the dead

Question 3

What kind of houses did the Neolithic people have

Answer 3

There houses had piles driven into the ground leaving post holes

Or walls of wattle and daub
WATTLE.wooden sticks woven together like a basket
DAUB. Mixture of dung sand mud and straw

The roof was thatched with straw and rushes

Question 4

What does megalithic mean

Answer 4

Huge stones

Question 5

What are passage graves

Answer 5

Huge mounds built over a central passage which lead to a chamber for the dead

Question 6

What are court cairns

Answer 6

Open space COURT at the front and a chamber originally covered by a mound of stones CAIRN for the dead behind

Question 7

What are portal dolmens

Answer 7

Two or more standing stones and a huge CAPSTONE resting across the top with the remains placed inside