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Rathcroghan

Conference

Peeling Back the LayersApril 12th - 14th 2013

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e Management and Sta of the Rathcroghan Visitor Centre and the membersof the Tulsk Action Group would like to take this opportunity to welcomeyou to the Tulsk Inn, Country Ballroom, and Rathcroghan Conference 2013.It is hoped that these talks and the conference Peeling back theLayers will help you to think about Rathcroghan in a new light.

Over the weekend, we will peel back the layers on this pre-historic landscape,wrapped in a medieval sheet, etched upon by Christian scribes, with a coating ofantiquarian exaggeration. Finally unwrapped by modern archaeology beginningwith Knox (1914), improved upon by Waddell (1983) and Herity (1983). eArchaeoGeophysical Imaging Project (Waddell et al, 1994-2009) amounted toprobably the most forensic and complex geophysical and topographical surveysever undertaken on an Irish archaeological monument, and this was furthercomplimented by the extensive scientic excavations carried out by the Discovery

Programmes Medieval Rural Settlement Project overseen by Dr. Niall Brady(2002-2010).

Friday17:00 18:00 Registrations

18:00 - 18:10 Welcome - Gary Dempsey

18:10 18:30 Mark Kelly (Irish School of Archaeology)e Irish School of Archaeology - What we do

e Irish School of Archaeology was set up by Mark Kelly to bringing furthereducation to schools at primary and secondary levels within Ireland, where aprogramme of archaeology is incorporated into the students curriculum.

18:30 19:10 Dr. Benjamin Hazard (University College Cork)Florence Conry, c.1560-1629, native of the villa of Figh,

civil parish of Tibohine, barony of Frenchpark, Co. RoscommonDr. Hazard is a Research Fellow with the School of History at University CollegeCork. In September 2007, he was awarded the Louvain 400 Postdoctoral Fellowshipand has contributed to the Corpus of Electronic Text (CELT) project at UCC. Hispaper this evening looks at Florence Conroy, a member of one of Connachts, andRoscommons, greatest bardic families the Maolconaire.

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13:20 Susan Curran (University College Dublin)LiDAR Analysis and Early Medieval Settlement in Counties Roscommon and LeitrimSusan is a graduate of the School of Archaeology in UCD where she studiedLandscape Archaeology looking at the early medieval landscape of Roscommonand Leitrim. In 2012 she co-edited Trowel, Vol. XIII, a signicant academicpublication platform for postgraduate students in Ireland, published by UCDpostgraduate students. Susans analysis of LiDAR data has identied new sitesand monuments, thus challenging the perception and understanding of earlymedieval settlement landscapes.

14:00 Lunch

15:00 Brian Shanahan (National University of Ireland Galway)

Brian Shanahan is a NUI Galway Hardiman Scholar undertaking PhD researchon landscape archaeology with a particular focus on County Roscommon. Hewas Assistant Director of the Discovery Programmes Medieval Rural SettlementProject between 2003-2011 during which time he led excavations and surveys ofmany sites in County Roscommon including Carnfree.

15:40 Kevin Barton (Landscape & Geophysical Services)(Dr. Ralf Hesse - State O ce for Cultural Heritage Baden-Wrttemberg)

Interpreting remote sensing data in a glaciated, karst lowland landscape;what lies around Rathcroghan Mound, Tulsk, Co Roscommon?

Kevin has over 25 years experience in the public, commercial andacademic worlds, working on many of the key research projectsin the area of Rathcroghan, including the NUIG research project.Kevin will discuss the advances in work carried out in partnership withDr. Hesse which is helping to advance the understanding of Rathcroghanusing LiDAR data provided by the Ordnance Survey of Ireland.Part of Ralf s work is the development and implementation of novel visualisationtechniques to facilitate the interpretation of high-resolution digital elevation models.

16:20 Dr. David McGuinnessRathcroghan and the Ordnance Survey of Ireland

e large scale mapping of Ireland in the early 19thC. at the scale of6-inches has been well documented. is monumental endeavour lea lasting impression on the landscape of Ireland, cementing placenamesand historical monuments in the o cial record. David will examine the

Ordnance Survey documentation of Rathcroghan in 1827, in the context ofa drive to record other monumental prehistoric landscapes around that time.

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10:00 Paul Gosling (Galway Mayo Institute of Technology)

From Crachan to Findabair Calnge and back:the Study of Toponymy and Route in Tin B Cailnge

Paul Gosling lectures on Built Heritage in the Galway-Mayo Institute ofTechnology. His research interests are focused principally on archaeological

survey, and his published work includes reports and papers on the eld monumentsof Galway and Clare Island, Co. Mayo, as well as the archaeology of a numberof towns. His research on the toponymic aspects of the Tin is being publishedas a series of papers in the County Louth Archaeological & Historical Journal.

10:40 Prof. Muiris Sullivan (University College Dublin)e Tin: a curious link in the Muirhevna region of County Louth

Muiris is Associate Professor of Archaeology at UCD , his work on Prehistoric art

and ritual is internationally recognised, and he has published extensively in this area.His work has dealt with some of the more iconic complexes of prehistoric Ireland,notably the great passage tombs in the Boyne Valley and on the Loughcrew hills.Other major interests include Irish archaeology in modern society and the state ofthe national archaeological resource. Prof. OSuilleabhain is also co-author and longstanding contributor to the Know Your Monuments series in Archaeology Ireland.

11:20 - Break

12:10 Ollamh Ruair hUiginn (National University of Ireland Maynooth)Lebor na hUidre: Some Early Connacht Associations

Ruairi is Professor of Modern Irish at NUI Maynooth, where he lectureson Folklore, Literature and Medieval Society, and placenames and personalnames. Many of these elements have been incorporated into essays onthe Ulster Cycle and the Tin, including one on Rathcroghan in an earlyedition of Emania (no. 5). In his talk today he will look at the Connacht

associations of Lebor na hUidre, the repository of Recension I of the Tin.

12:50 Eamonn (Ned) Kelly (National Museum of Ireland)Kingship and Sacrice: Irish Prehistoric Bog Bodies.

Eamonn Kelly joined the Museum in 1975 and is the Keeper of the Irish Antiquitiesdivision. He is responsible for the Irish archaeological; Egyptian; Classical andEthnographical Collections. He has written extensively on diverse aspects ofIrish archaeology, and developed a new theory to explain the phenomena of

Irish Iron Age bog bodies, which inspired the exhibition Kingship and Sacrice.

Sunday

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13.20 Dr. Niall Brady (e Archaeological Diving Company Ltd)A gateway to Cruachan, the role of Tuilsce (Tulsk) since early prehistory

Niall is co-director of ADCO - e Archaeological DivingCompany Ltd, Irelands premier consultancy in Underwater

and Maritime Archaeology. Founded in 1999, ADCO oers aprofessional archaeological service in lake, river, intertidal andmarine archaeology, and is committed to research and publication.No stranger to Tulsk, as director of the Discovery Programmes MedievalRural Settlement Project, 2002-10, Dr. Brady and his sta helped tounravel the story of the settlement of Tulsk. e sites at Tulsk drew theattention of the project team, who were examining questions associatedwith later medieval settlement within Gaelic lordships between the

12th and the 16th centuries. eir excavations on the raised rathof Tulsk Fort revealed a sequence of ve main horizons of activity,including the early medieval, later medieval and the early modern/Elizabethan periods. In the present lecture, Niall will speak about theprehistoric strata, which lie underneath the ringfort, and include IronAge and Neolithic levels. He will demonstrate the importance of Tulskin this early period, and he will argue that the site served as the naturaleastern gateway to the ancient royal and sacred landscape of Cruachan.

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