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MuseumsSite Name: Cruachan Aí Heritage Centre Alternative Name: Rathcroghan Mound, Rathcroghan Visitor Centre
Country: Ireland (Republic of)
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County: Co. Roscommon Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Castlerea  Nearest Village: Tulsk
Latitude: 53.778910N  Longitude: 8.253831W
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Cruachan Aí Heritage Centre submitted by durhamnature : Drawing of the mound from Wakeman's Handbook, via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)
Museum in Co. Roscommon. In the heartland of Connacht, Ireland a forgotten landscape is being brought to light in the award-winning Cruachan Aí Heritage Centre. Cruachan is one of the most important and best preserved Celtic Royal Sites in Europe, and the medieval village of Tulsk, Co. Roscommon is the setting for the new centre.

An amazing array of archaeological remains are located within a four mile radius of the centre, dating from the Stone Age to the historic period, and these are interpreted in our bright, modern exhibition rooms.

The central focus is Rathcroghan Mound, now established as a ceremonial mound associated with pre-Christian ritual. Most of the important sites date from the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age, a period of great activity and progress in Ireland 's past.

Source: Rathcroghan Visitor Centre web site

Note: Delving into the past in Roscommon, see comment
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Cruachan Aí Heritage Centre submitted by durhamnature : Drawing from Smaller Social History, via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)

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M8381 : Tulsk, County Roscommon by Sarah777
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M8380 : Cemetery and ruins of Dominican Friary, Tulsk by Eric Jones
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M8381 : The N5 at the Roscommon village of Tulsk by Eric Jones
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M8381 : Entering Tulsk from the west along the N5 by Eric Jones
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August events at the Rathcroghan Visitor Centre by Andy B on Sunday, 07 August 2016
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Fri Aug 19th 19:30 - 22:30
An Evening Of Music And Song
We are proud to present a unique evening of music and song in the intimate surrounds of Rathcroghan Visitor Centre, with the fantastic folk and traditional group the '4 and 9's' on Friday 19th August 2016.
Doors at 7pm. Show at 7.30pm. Admission 10 euros.
As places are limited, please book early.
Tickets available at Rathcroghan Visitor Centre or phone (071) 9639268
https://www.facebook.com/events/1735542086696875/

Wed Aug 24th 19:30 - 21:00
Heritage Week Event - The route of Táin Bó Cúailnge in Co. Roscommon
As part of our ongoing projects including the Táin March and theTáin Route, Paul Gosling, Heritage Studies, GMIT will present a seminar on the topographical aspects of the story of the first leg of Queen Medb's journey from Rathcroghan Co. Roscommon to Cooley Co. Louth, 2,000 years ago, in quest of the Brown Bull of Cooley. According to the story they left Rathcroghan on the Monday after Halloween and their first camp was at Ardkillin Lough between Tulsk and Strokestown. Some traditions suggest that they passed through Scramoge but others have suggested that the army crossed Slieve Bawn. If so they may have forded the Shannon at Lanesborough rather than Termonbarry. Bring your maps and discuss ideas about the likely routes and fords, obstacles (bogs, rivers, forests) that existed in north Roscommon in early medieval times.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1084112425010901/

Sat Aug 20th 09:00 - Sun 28th 16:30
Heritage Week: Visualising The Stories Of Ancient Ireland
Matt Doyle hails from Wexford and has been a professional artist for many years. He has achieved great acclaim for his portrait work and he has worked with many celebrities such as Don Baker, Christy Moore, Shane Mac Gowan, John B. Keane, Brendan Gleeson to name but a few. Many celebrities have signed his works making them very collectable. His recent collection of 'Irish Myths & Legends' include Grace O' Malley (Irish pirate queen from Clare Island), Queen Maeve, The Road to Tir Na Nog, The Call of the Banshee, Children of Lir, Deirdre of the Sorrows, and many more. His works have been aired on numerous television shows including RTE's Nationwide. He now lives in Mayo and he is still producing many new works including sculptures such as James Joyce, The Celtic Warrior, The Turf Cutter and more to follow. He will exhibit a collection of his works in the exhibition rooms of Rathcroghan Visitor Centre during heritage week along the lines of ‘Visualising the Stories of Ancient Ireland’.
https://www.facebook.com/events/275150596168085/

Fri Aug 26th 19:30 - 21:00
Heritage Week Event - Landscape, Settlement, and Society in Medieval Roscommon, a memorial lecture in honour of Prof. Michael Herity
Michael Herity was a prestigious archaeologist and Emeritus Professor of UCD, specialising in the Neolithic and early Christian sites in the Glencolmcille area, who regrettably died at the age of 86. He held the roles of President of the Royal Irish Academy and of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland as well as editor of its journal, and was appointed chair of the governing body of St Patrick’s College in Drumcondra, where he had started his career as a school teacher. Originally researching in the field of earlier prehistoric Ireland, especially portal and passage tombs, he also developed an interest in the Celtic Royal sites and undertook a detailed survey of the archaeological landscape of Rathcroghan, which is still influencing scholars and archaeologists today. His main innovation there was to examine the layers of the landscape to provide a regional study of the medieval field systems, church sites and ringforts in addition to the already well-known barrows. In

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Cruachan Aí Heritage Centre by davidmorgan on Monday, 11 March 2013
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Rathcroghan by Andy B on Friday, 09 September 2011
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Rathcroghan (Irish: Ráth Cruachan, meaning "ringfort of Cruachan") is a complex of archaeological sites near Tulsk in County Roscommon, Ireland. It is identified as the site of Cruachan, the traditional capital of the Connachta. While it is debatable whether this was a place of residence, it had huge importance as a cemetery and also hosted some of the main ritual gatherings in ancient times. It is an important site in Irish mythology, in particular as the seat of Ailill and Medb, king and queen of the Connachta in the Ulster Cycle. It is the setting for the opening section of the Táin Bó Cúailnge and the Táin Bó Flidhais.

More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rathcroghan
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Delving into the past in Roscommon by Andy B on Wednesday, 03 December 2008
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A FEW WEEKS ago archeologists digging at the site of a medieval castle in Co Roscommon found a treasure trove of Iron Age pottery and flint tools that are at least 3,000 years old. Not what you expect when you are investigating the foundations of a 16th-century building - but not that surprising given that the site is a stone's throw from Rathcroghan, reputed to be the burial ground and inauguration site of the ancient kings of Connacht.

At first glance Cruachan Aí Heritage Centre, in Tulsk village, looks no more than an inviting coffee shop on the banks of the picturesque Ogulla river, near a busy crossroads about 18km from Roscommon town.

But the "layers of history" cliche was made for Tulsk. It was the home of the legendary warrior Queen Medbh, one of the most important Celtic royal sites in Europe and the seat of the O'Conor chieftains. Intriguingly, the entrance to the other world of the fairies is reputed to be at Oweynagat (the Cave of the Cats), close to the centre.

It is built in the shadow of Tulsk Castle and a 15th-century Dominican abbey on the shores of the river where St Patrick is reputed to have converted the children of the high kings of Ireland. Sixty national monuments lie within a six-kilometre radius.Asked to put Rathcroghan in context by comparing it with Tara, the aptly named administrator, Mike Croghan, replies simply: "Older and bigger."

The central focus of the interpretative centre, Rathcroghan Mound, is a ceremonial structure associated with pre-Christian ritual. Most of the important sites in the complex date from the late Bronze Age and the Iron Age.

It was from this area that Medbh launched the Táin Bó Cúailnge, or Cattle raid of Cooley, when she got huffy with her husband, Ailill, after he boasted that he owned a white bull and was therefore wealthier than her. Medbh decided to steal a bull from Ulster, sparking a stand-off with Cúchulainn that ended in Tulsk when the brown bull of Cooley hoisted Ailill's white bull on his horns before making his victorious journey home.

Legend has it that the dying white bull left a trail of blood on the road to Cooley and that he lost his loins at Athlone, hence the name.

Cruachan Aí Heritage Centre, which opened in 1999, attempts to throw the spotlight on a place steeped in archaeology, mythology and history. Three exhibition rooms explain the importance of adjoining sites at Rathcroghan, Tulsk and Carnfree. Visitors wary of visiting Oweynagat, also known as Ireland's gate to hell, can study it from a safe distance in the centre.

When a team of archeologists touched down in Tulsk a few years ago as part of the State-funded Discovery Programme, they were there to learn more about the Gaelic lords who ruled the roost in rural Ireland in medieval times.

It was a happy coincidence that they were digging a stone's throw from Oweynagat and three kilometres from Rathcroghan, the ceremonial site that is believed to contain a passage tomb, and Rathnadarve, or Ráth na dTarbh, reputed to be the place where the brown bull of Cooley and the white-horned bull of Connacht did battle.

History, of course, is an ongoing story, and the archeologists have found everything from Stone Age axe heads to Elizabethan coins on the site of the medieval tower house they unearthed beneath a mound where cattle graze for most of the year.

The tower house, it seems, had been demolished and rebuilt several times over the centuries, and some of the artifacts they discovered are associated with Sir Richard Bingham, once known as the "flail of Connacht", who was garrisoned in the area when he was Queen Elizabeth I's governor to the province.

Dr Niall Brady, who led the dig, said that the most recent finds add a prehistoric dimension to the project. He said that as well as pottery, tools and burnt bones that he believes will be determined as Iron Age, they also found a bone pin sculpted as a horse's head i

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