Section 2: Neolithic Period

Question 0

Porcellanite

Answer 0

A tougher and heavierstone .

Question 1

Neolithic

Answer 1

Period when people farmed and used better stone tools .

Question 2

Lough Gur

Answer 2

Excavation at Lough Gur in Co.Limerich where first Irish farmers lived .

Question 3

Wattle and daub

Answer 3

The walls were than made by weaving branches in and at out through the planks , like a huge basket .

Question 4

Céide Fields

Answer 4

Céide Filds in Co.Mayo the archeologists have found stone walls buried under the stone .

Question 5

Quern stone

Answer 5

Quern stone would have been used to grind grain into flour for bread

Question 6

Megaliths

Answer 6

The Ireland farmers went to great traple to build very sophisticated tombs for their dead

Question 7

Court Cain

Answer 7

The court cains have open area and means a mound of stones . They earliest type of megalithic tombs .

Question 8

Dolmen

Answer 8

A tomb made of upright stones .

Question 9

Passage tomb

Answer 9

The most impressive megalathic tombs are the passage tombs. There are vary size .

Question 10

Capstone

Answer 10

A large flat stone that lies on top a dolmen .

Question 11

Corbelled roof

Answer 11

The roof is an extension of the walls .