Worksheets3. Early Christian Ireland Quiz
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
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
A cup or goblet
Scribe
Palladius
Chalice
Dendrochronology
Celtic priests
Radiocarbon dating
St Enda
Druids
Scribe
Someone who believed in many gods
St Patrick
Sources
Dendrochronology
Pagan
Monk who spread Christianity in Ireland, arrived in 432 AD
Irish Diaspora
St Patrick
Book of Durrow
Druids
A missionary sent to Ireland in 431 AD
Palladius
Evidence
Tonsured
Scriptorium
Missionary who founded a monastery in the Aran Islands
Vellum
Dendrochronology
St Enda
Clonmacnoise
Head of a monastery
Palladius
Abbot
Round tower
Druids
A monastery founded by St Cíarán along the banks of the River Shannon
Druids
Tonsure
Clonmacnoise
Sources
Calfskin prepared as a surface for writing or painting
Vellum
Filigree
Round tower
High Cross
Illuminated manuscript written in Latin containing the four Gospels of the New Testament
Stratigraphy
Tonsure
Book of Kells
Abbot
Illuminated manuscript from 675 AD printed on animal skins
Excavations
Book of Durrow
St Patrick
Irish Diaspora
Irish people and their descendants who live outside Ireland
Irish Diaspora
Druids
Radiocarbon dating
Evidence
