County: Roscommon Site name: RATHCROGHAN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 96E0214
Author: John Waddell, Kevin Barton and Joe Fenwick, Dept. of Archaeology, University College Galway
Site type: Ceremonial enclosure
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 579921m, N 784772m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.812090, -8.304870
A series of soil samples were taken under licence in the topsoil 150m to the north-west of Rathcroghan Mound to see if shallow soil-sampling could be used to determine the sources of various magnetic gradiometry and susceptibility anomalies found in the vicinity of that monument. This sampling is a part of the ArchaeoGeophysical Imaging Project in the Rathcroghan complex funded by the Heritage Council (see Archaeology Ireland, Vol. 10, no. 3 (1996), 20–3).
