the centre at Tulsk, is small but has good aerial photos
that will show all better than plodding aimlessly on the
ground. As far as I know no dig of any kind has taken place here at all.
No dig of the Neolithic and Iron Age monuments around Rathcroghan Main Mound has taken place, although the OPW released Heritage Guide No. 44 last year, and the 2009 book "Rathcroghan" by John Waddell, Kevin Barton, and Joe fenwick, is a culmination of 10 years survey and non invasive research in the area.
Discovery programme were digging for 5 years at one of the medieval sites in Tulsk village, looking for Richard Bingham's Garrison tower from the 1590s (found it), and also finding continual occupation as far down as the bronze age remains. Native Gaelic kingship was alive and kicking in Connacht til 1600s, with the seat of Kingship in Tulsk (still within the Rathcroghan complex), with the O'Conors.
Rathcroghan has been nominated this year for UNESCO World Heritage status, with Tara and the other provincial Royal sites (leaving out Ulster's Emhain Mhacha though, a mistake IMHO)
Le Meas,
Lora O'Brien
Manager, Cruachan Aí
