approximately six thousand years ago the first farmers began to work the land these Neolithic farmers spread throughout the land clearing the forests and planting corn corn was growing on raised beds much like the lazy bed potato wakes of famine times but they were primarily cattle farmers traces of their cultivation methods can be found high in the Kuti mountains they began to build Neolithic monuments and burial chambers for their leaders such as Noth Locke crew Karns Newgrange and pro-league dolmen and slave galley stones facing the great band of Newgrange were brought from templeton beach their monuments were aligned with heavenly bodies on the winter solstice the last rays of the Setting Sun penetrate the burial chamber in the Carn on Steve Goodman around 3,000 years ago we see the arrival of the first metal workers the first metal workers made tools and weapons in bronze some examples show tremendous craftsmanship