• an important Neolithic archaeological site in the northwest of Ireland

Discover

• In the 1930s, a local teacher realised that stones beneath the bog surface were once

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  walls
  
  
  

• His

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  son
   became an archaeologist and undertook an investigation of the site:

- a traditional method used by local people to dig for

- carbon dating later proved the site was Neolithic.

• Items are well preserved in the bog because of a lack of

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  oxygen
  
  
  .

Neolithic farmers

• Houses were

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  rectangular
   in shape and had a hole in the roof.

• Neolithic innovations include: 

- cooking indoors

- pots used for storage and to make

• Each field at Céide was large enough to support a big

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  family
  

• The fields were probably used to restrict the grazing of animals - no evidence of structures to house them during

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  winter
  
  
  

Reasons for the decline in farming

• a decline in

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  soil
   quality

• an increase in

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  rain