Ancient Ireland

Question 1

Old Stone Age

Answer 1

Pre-8000 B.C.

Question 2

Middle Stone Age

Answer 2

8000 B.C. - 3500 B.C.

Question 3

New Stone Age

Answer 3

3500 B.C. - 2000 B.C.

Question 4

Mesolithic

Answer 4

Middle Stone Age

Question 5

Mount Sandle Co. Derry

Answer 5

Earliest evidence of human settlers.

Question 6

Nomad

Answer 6

Move from place to place.

Question 7

Hunter-gatherer

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Microlites

Answer 8

Mesolithic tool made from flint.

Question 9

Neolithic

Answer 9

New Stone Age.

Question 10

Wattle

Answer 10

Posts with branches woven between them.

Question 11

Daub

Answer 11

Mixture of mud and straw applied like plaster.

Question 12

First farmers

Answer 12

Neolithic people.

Question 13

Scraper

Answer 13

Used to clean animal skin.

Question 14

Megalithic

Answer 14

Big stone.

Question 15

Portal Dolmen

Answer 15

Stone table.

Question 16

Court Cairn

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Passage Grave

Answer 17

Tomb with a long passage leading to a burial chamber.

Question 18

Newgrange

Answer 18

Passage grave in the Boyne Valley.

Question 19

Kerbstone

Answer 19

Large stone decorated with spirals and zigzags surrounding passage graves.

Question 20

Bronze Age

Answer 20

2000 B.C. - 500 B.C.

Question 21

Smelting

Answer 21

Melting metal out of rock.

Question 22

Fulacht Fiadh

Answer 22

Water filled pit used to cook food.

Question 23

Lunula

Answer 23

Bronze Age necklace.

Question 24

Wedge tomb and cist grave

Answer 24

Bronze age tombs

Question 25

The Celts/Iron Age

Answer 25

500 B.C. - 500 A.D.

Question 26

Siculus

Answer 26

Roman who wrote about the Celts.

Question 27

Ogham stone

Answer 27

Standing stone with the alphabet carved into the side.

Question 28

Ringfort

Answer 28

A circular bank of earth surrounded by a trench.

Question 29

Hillfort

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Dun Aengus

Answer 30

Promontory fort build on the edge of a cliff.

Question 31

Crannog

Answer 31

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

Question 32

Torc

Answer 32

Celtic necklace.

Question 33

Brat

Answer 33

Long woolen cloak worn by Celts.

Question 34

Leine

Answer 34

Knee-length tunic worn by Celtic men.

Question 35

Bracac

Answer 35

Trousers worn by poor Celtic men under their brat.

Question 36

Rotary quern

Answer 36

Used to grind grain into flour.

Question 37

Flax

Answer 37

Made into linen.

Question 38

FIle

Answer 38

Celtic poet.

Question 39

Baire

Answer 39

Game like hurling.

Question 40

Ficheall

Answer 40

Celtic chess.

Question 41

Daghda

Answer 41

Celtic god of the afterlife.

Question 42

Lug

Answer 42

Celtic god of war.

Question 43

Druid

Answer 43

Pagan Celtic priest.

Question 44

Samhain, Imbolc, Bealtaine, Lughnasa.

Answer 44

Celtic festivals.

Question 45

Tuath

Answer 45

Celtic kingdom.

Question 46

Ri

Answer 46

Celtic king.

Question 47

Aos Dana

Answer 47

Most important people in each tuath.

Question 48

Brehon

Answer 48

Celtic judge.

Question 49

Queen Medb

Answer 49

Powerful Celtic woman.

Question 50

Early Christian Ireland.

Answer 50

400 A.D.

Question 51

Emperor Constantine

Answer 51

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

Question 52

431 A.D.

Answer 52

Palladius sent to Ireland.

Question 53

432 A.D.

Answer 53

Patrick arrives in Ireland.

Question 54

Skellig Michael

Answer 54

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

Question 55

Oratory

Answer 55

Early Christian Church.

Question 56

Refectory

Answer 56

Early Christian dining room.

Question 57

Casula

Answer 57

Uncomfortable cloak worn by early Christian monks.

Question 58

Tonsure

Answer 58

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

Question 59

Abbot

Answer 59

Head of an early Christian monastery.

Question 60

Matins

Answer 60

Morning prayers said by early Christian monks.

Question 61

Vespers

Answer 61

Evening prayers said by early Christian monks.

Question 62

Scriptorium

Answer 62

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

Question 63

St. Colmcille

Answer 63

Missionary who set up a monastery on Iona.

Question 64

The Book of Kells

Answer 64

Example of an early Christian manuscript.