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The Neolithic Period (New Stone Age)
- Neolithic houses were usually rectangular shape. The walls were
built of upright timber planks or else of wattle and daub. The roof
was thatched with straw from wheat and barley or with reeds from a
river.
- Houses
- work and food
- Irelands first farmers tilled the lands with mattocks ( a tool used
for breaking up hard ground ) or with wooden ploughs. They grew
wheat and barley, where were used to make bread and porridge.
The grain was ground on a saddle-stone.
- Apart from the grain, the people also got
food from their animals, for example when
pigs were killed, in the winter. they also
fished, hunted and gathered berried and
hazelnuts.