Ancient Ireland

Mesolithic Period

1. What is another name for the Middle Stone Age?

2. Where did the Middle Stone Age people live?

3. How did archaeologists know there was settlement at Mount Sandel? (two ways)

4. The Middle Stone Age people moved from place to place.  They were called _____.

5. The Middle Stone Age people got their food by ________.

6. They cooked their food on ______.

7. What tool did they use to fish?

8. What material did they use to make their clothes?

9. They used ______ to clean the material for making the clothes.

10. The houses were made of _______.

The Neolithic Period

1. First farmers came to Ireland in ______.

2. Name an example of a Neolithic site.

3. Name two farming tools used by Neolithic people.

4. What was pottery used for?

5. What were big stone tombs called?

6. Name and describe three types of these tombs.

7. What were the great stones moved on?

8. What is the word for the roof on the tomb in Newgrange, Co. Meath?

9. Name the stone that is put on top of a portal dolmen.

The Bronze Age

1. How was bronze made?

2. Give three reasons why bronze was better than stone.

3. Name how bronze age people cook their food.

4. Name three types of jewellery made in the bronze age.

5. What was jewellery made of?

6. Name and describe two types of burial.