1. Early Christian Ireland

2. Early Christian Ireland.
(Early 400s AD)
• First arrived in the southeast.
• Some may have been
slaves.
• St. Patrick best known;
The story of Patrick.
• Most Celts were Christian
by 600AD.
• Celtic life continued as
before but druids lost
power.

3. Monasteries :
• Remote areas:
Skellig Michael
Glendalough

4. Round Towers
Clondalkin

5. Beehive cells (clocháns)

6. Scriptorium
• Manuscripts on parchment or vellum.
Book of Kells
Cathach

7. Arts and crafts:
• Metalwork
• Filigree (Ardagh and
Derrynaflan chalices,
Tara brooch )
• High crosses
(Muireadeach’s Cross in
Monasterboice)

8. Irish monks abroad :
• ‘Island of saints and
scholars’
• Columcille in Iona
• Columbanus in
Bobbio Italy.