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Three years ago, arsonists in Ireland destroyed a recreated medieval roundhouse. Now, a team of students from the University College Dublin ( UCD) have rebuilt it on campus. During the medieval period in Ireland, rural farming families lived in homes called roundhouses. 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 Irish students has recreated a medieval roundhouse on their campus. 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