The new roundhouse is built on UCD grounds near the Owenstown park entrance of Roebuck’s Castle. ( UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology ) “Intriguing” Finds from Roundhouse Fire Students in UCD’s Experimental Archaeology program engage in interactive activities to learn how those in ancient Ireland lived, worked, and played. But this is much more than a house! The professor in charge has tasked his students with building an interactive archaeological teaching pod, in which they will get hands-on experience of how people lived in medieval Ireland. Now, a team of Irish students has recreated a medieval roundhouse on their campus. Made using stone and wood, with straw and oat thatched roofs, the vast majority of people lived in roundhouses, while only local elites occupied hilltop stone castles. Now, a team of students from the University College Dublin ( UCD) have rebuilt it on campus.ĭuring the medieval period in Ireland, rural farming families lived in homes called roundhouses. Three years ago, arsonists in Ireland destroyed a recreated medieval roundhouse.
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