3. Early Christian Ireland Quiz

A tall building in a monastery used to sound the bell and as a defence tower during attack

• Crozier

• Tonsure

• Round tower

• Irish Diaspora

The shaving of the top of a monks head

• Scribe

• Druids

• Irish Diaspora

• Tonsure

A hooked staff carried by a bishop

• Vellum

• Crozier

• St Patrick

• Palladius

A handwritten or typed piece of writing, such as a book

• Manuscript

• Irish Diaspora

• Scribe

• Abbot

Religious community where monks live and work

• Round tower

• The Celts

• Book of Kells

• Monastery

A decorated standing stone cross, usually used to tell Bible stories

• Abbot

• St Enda

• Palladius

• High Cross

A room in a monastery for writing or copying manuscripts

• Scriptorium

• Radiocarbon dating

• Clonmacnoise

• Pagan

Delicate, ornamental work made from twisted wire of gold or silver

• Palladius

• Historically significant

• Scriptorium

• Filigree

A corbelled stone hut/cell where monks lived

• Excavations

• Radiocarbon dating

• Stratigraphy

• Beehive hut

A monk who copies manuscripts

• The Celts

• Stratigraphy

• Scribe

• Book of Durrow