Answer:
1. The Ceide Fields in the north of County
Mayo, on the west coast. It
is the largest known stone age enclosed site in the world. People lived for a number of
centuries on 1,200 hectares of farmland which they had enclosed with stone walls to keep
their animals in; co-operation is implicit from the form of agriculture
practised. There
is no evidence of fortification or defences, and homes were scattered (remarkably similar
to land occupation patterns today). Some of the walls have been excavated from the blanket
bog which covered it and which also preserved the stone remains in their original form.
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