Yes / In 2015, a previously unknown enclosed
settlement and burial ground was found
near the summit of a low hill in Ranelagh
townland, just north of Roscommon town.
The site—officially designated Ranelagh
1, and hereafter referred to variously as
‘the Ranelagh site’, ‘the site at Ranelagh’ or
simply ‘Ranelagh’—was excavated over a
54-week period by Excavation Director Shane
Delaney for Irish Archaeological Consultancy
(IAC) Ltd between October 2015 and October
20161
. Excavations revealed that the site was
established during the fourth century AD;
for over 1,000 years, until the final phase of
burial activity proper concluded there shortly
after AD 1400, the site would have been a
prominent feature in both the geographical
and psychological landscape of the time.
Cillín (children’s) burials continued at the
site until about AD 1650, further asserting
this prominence.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/19299 |
| Date | 06 January 2023 |
| Creators | Delaney, s., Murphy, E., Beaumont, Julia, Cassidy, L., Drain, D., Gillig, N., Gormley, S., Halstead, L., Jackson, I., Jones, M., Le Roy, M., Loyer, J., Mattiangeli, V., McAlister, G., McCarthy, M., McSparron, C., OCarroll, E., O'Neill, B., O’Reilly, R., Scully, S., Stevens, P., White, J., White, L., Young, T. |
| Publisher | Transport Infrastructure Ireland |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Book chapter, Published version |
| Rights | © 2022 Transport Infrastructure Ireland. Reproduced with permission from the publisher. |
| Relation | https://www.tii.ie/technical-services/archaeology/publications/tii-heritage/ |
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