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Pre-Christian Ireland

Pre-Christian Ireland. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FncwFd1RzQ. C ategories. Stone Age 7,000BC – 2,000BC Bronze Age 2,000BC – 500BC Iron Age 500BC – 450AD. Stone Age. Mesolithic Period 7,000BC – 3,700BC Neolithic Period 3,700BC – 2,000BC. Stone Age Vocabulary. Lith = Stone

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Pre-Christian Ireland

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  1. Pre-Christian Ireland http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FncwFd1RzQ

  2. Categories • Stone Age 7,000BC – 2,000BC • Bronze Age 2,000BC – 500BC • Iron Age 500BC – 450AD

  3. Stone Age • Mesolithic Period 7,000BC – 3,700BC • Neolithic Period 3,700BC – 2,000BC

  4. Stone Age Vocabulary • Lith = Stone • Mesolithic = Middle Stone Age • Neolithic = New Stone Age • Megalithic = Big Stone

  5. Artistic & Architectural Importance of the Period • Megalithic Monuments are the earliest examples of Irish art & architecture • Megalithic Monuments are from the Neolithic Period

  6. The Neolithic Period • Lifestyles changed from hunter-gathering to settled communities with evidence of farming. • Highly organised and complex society. • Food producing methods such as harvesting of crops and breeding of animals spread across from mainland Europe

  7. Megalithic Monuments • Portal Tombs or Dolmens • Court Cairns • Passage Tombs

  8. Portal Tomb/Dolmen • Dolmen is an old Brehon word meaning ‘stone table’

  9. Poulnabrone, Co.Clare

  10. Kilclooney, Co. Donegal

  11. Brownes Hill, Co. Carlow

  12. Form/Structure • Three to seven upright stones. • One or two very heavy capstones which slope which slope downwards towards the back. • Tripod in design • A capstone is a top stone that acts as a roof

  13. Function • Dolmens are above ground burial chambers

  14. Court Cairns • Probably the earliest megalithic monuments built in Ireland • Most built in the north of Ireland

  15. Layout

  16. Creevykeel, Co. Sligo

  17. Form/Structure • A semi-circular forecourt of upright stones leading to a gallery divided into separate chambers surrounded by an oval-shaped cairn or mound of stones

  18. The Forecourt (or courtyard) had no roof but the gallery was covered. • A burial chamber was situated in the covered gallery • The gallery was divided into two or three chambers by protruding stones like doorjambs • A doorjamb is like the side pieces of a door frame. In this case doorjamb were large vertical slabs of stone

  19. Function • Burial chambers • Ritual site

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