What Sort Of Tools Would Farmers Have Used In The Irish Neolithic?

The tool which was central in tool assemblages was the polished stone axe.
It was a central item in |Childes Western Zone assemblages(1931).
The sites of Brockley and Tievebulliagh in the north-east of Ireland have revealed that large bars of igneous rock were traded and worked into polished stone axes. It is thought that they were traded and aquired in bulk and polished as needed.
Stone axe sites have been found in Ireland and Britain and show how important these tools were for forest clearance, ritual and domestic use.
The stone axes tend not to be found at factory sites as they would have been exported elsewhere and used for different purposes in different areas.
They also used flint tools in the form of hafted arrowheads and may of the larnian deposits from the north-east coast from Donegal to Dublin belong to the Neolithic period.

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