Early Settlement (Leaving Cert Construction Studies): Flashcards

Historic buildings & structures from past settlements showing construction methods, materials & design

Co. Meath, c. 3200 BC

Overlapping stone layers creating self-supporting roof

Passage aligns with rising sun, floods inner chamber with light

Protection from animals/raiders, shelter for livestock, mark land ownership

Bell towers, storehouses, safe refuges during raids

Co. Kerry - corbelled stone cells used by monks in remote location

Fortified harbours that became first Irish towns

Woven sticks covered with mud and straw

Late 8th century