Celtic Ireland

Celtic Ireland

1. food

   • Crops
     • Wheat, barely, oat
   • Animals
     • Killed in Autumn and preserved in salt

2. Homes

   • Dún
     • Built on hills
   • Promontory Forts
     • On headlands or sea cliffs

3. Clothes

   • Makeup
     • Made from berries and herbs
   • Rich people dyed clothes to bright colours
     • Rich men wore Léine tied at waist with Crois
     • Women wore ankle length tunics
     • In winter both wear cloaks pinned with silver/gold brooch
   • They also wore torcs, earings and bracelets

4. Religion

   • Believed in after-life
   • Offered sacrifices to their gods
   • Lugh
     • God of war
     • Festival named after= Lughnasa
   • Brigid
     • Main godess