Winter Exams Early Christian Ireland❄️🇮🇪

Question 1

Who was st Patrick

Answer 1

St Patrick was the most famous bishop to come to Ireland
He was brought to Ireland as a slave when he was 16. He escaped to Britain after 6 years but came back to Ireland to spread Christianity.
He wrote a book called “st. Patrick’s Confessio”

Question 2

Who were monks

Answer 2

Monks where men who gave their lives to Christ and chose to live apart from society in closed religious communities called monasteries

Question 3

A day in the life of a monk

Answer 3

• Monks led strict, simple lives.
• They spent their days praying, working, and eating.
• They prayed six to eight times per day.
• Monks were often self- sufficient
• Irish monasteries became famous for teaching poetry, literacy and art

Question 4

Name an Irish monastery

Answer 4

Glendalough

Question 5

Beehive huts

Answer 5

Early Christian monks in Ireland lived in beehive huts.
These were stone huts shaped like beehives hence the name.
They where built using a corbeling style
Monks would do very little in here except sleep

Question 6

Oratory

Answer 6

Monks attended church and had small masses in a small church called an oratory

Question 7

The scriptorium

Answer 7

The scriptorium is where manuscripts where copied and hand illustrated

Question 8

The refectory

Answer 8

This is where monks would eat

Question 9

Round towers

Answer 9

This was a bell tower and a safe place for people and treasures.
• A round tower’s door was many metres off the ground and could not be reached without a ladder.
• All its windows were very high up.
• This meant those inside could see for miles, but also meant attackers could not get in easil