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Tulsk
Tulsk (Irish: Tuilsce) is a village in County Roscommon, Ireland. It is 19 km north of Roscommon town, on the N5 road between Strokestown and Bellanagare.
Near Tulsk is Cruachan, an Iron Age (Gaelic) royal palace. As recounted in the Táin Bó Cuailnge, it was the home of the Irish warrior Queen Medb (or Maeve), who was responsible for launching the Cattle Raid of Cooley. Archeological surveys have shed new light on the significance of the site and the 60 National Monuments found in the surrounding area. The results of archaeological surveys, carried out by John Waddell of the National University of Ireland in Galway, are incorporated into the exhibition rooms at Cruachan Aí Heritage Centre. The book Rathcroghan, Co Roscommon: an archaeological and geophysical survey in a ritual landscape, by John Waddell, Joe Fenwick and Kevin Barton, details the features and information about the Celtic royal site of Connacht.[citation needed]
The Discovery Programme based its primary archaeological excavations and survey in the medieval village of Tulsk, and surrounding areas, from 2003 to 2009.
Archaeological research conducted by the Discovery Programme, Ireland's archaeological research institute funded by the Heritage Council, has examined the nature of Gaelic lordship and settlement in north Roscommon during the later medieval period, c. 1170–1650 AD. Since 2003, elements of this work have focused on the history and development of Tulsk as the principal residence of the O'Conor Roe (Rua) lords. Excavation on the ringfort in Tulsk village has revealed several periods of settlement, which include a medieval castle-building phase and an Elizabethan-period (c. 1560-1590s) occupation when the mound was included as part of the works associated with the garrisoning of Tulsk by Sir Richard Bingham, the ‘Flail of Connacht’.
In 2009, the archaeological team focused on a series of strata that explain the dating and development of the site. This work considered the ringfort that underlies the medieval tower and identified a boulder clay bank and ditch. It also showed the levels of soil introduced at a later date to build up the ringfort into a 'platform' of 'raised rath' form, sometime before the building of the medieval tower. These excavations also revealed prehistoric levels that extend back into the Mesolithic period, before the time of farming and when hunting and gathering prevailed.[citation needed] Information on finds are presented in the Cruachan Aí Heritage Centre in Tulsk.[citation needed]
Tulsk was previously a parliamentary borough, one of three in County Roscommon from the period 1663 to 1800, and was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons. Under the co-monarchs William III of England and Mary II of England, Tulsk was first represented in the Commons by William Caulfeild and William Neave in 1692. The year marked what was to be the beginning of an extended period of dominance for the Protestant Ascendancy. One of the two seats was effectively hereditary in the Caulfeild family.
In 1779, the artist Gabriel Beranger travelled throughout Ireland to paint the 'antiquities’ of Ireland for the Hibernian Antiquarian Society. On his travels he passed through Tulsk and Rathcroghan. He noted that on May Day he witnessed a scene ‘peculiar to this locality’:
It was that of ‘driving in all the black cattle from the surrounding plains to the great fort of Rathcroghan Mound, and bleeding them for the benefit of their health, while crowds of country people, having brought turf for firing, sat around and cooked the blood mixed with oaten meal, and when they could be procured, onions or scallions.
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Tulsk
Tulsk (Irish: Tuilsce) is a village in County Roscommon, Ireland. It is 19 km north of Roscommon town, on the N5 road between Strokestown and Bellanagare.
Near Tulsk is Cruachan, an Iron Age (Gaelic) royal palace. As recounted in the Táin Bó Cuailnge, it was the home of the Irish warrior Queen Medb (or Maeve), who was responsible for launching the Cattle Raid of Cooley. Archeological surveys have shed new light on the significance of the site and the 60 National Monuments found in the surrounding area. The results of archaeological surveys, carried out by John Waddell of the National University of Ireland in Galway, are incorporated into the exhibition rooms at Cruachan Aí Heritage Centre. The book Rathcroghan, Co Roscommon: an archaeological and geophysical survey in a ritual landscape, by John Waddell, Joe Fenwick and Kevin Barton, details the features and information about the Celtic royal site of Connacht.[citation needed]
The Discovery Programme based its primary archaeological excavations and survey in the medieval village of Tulsk, and surrounding areas, from 2003 to 2009.
Archaeological research conducted by the Discovery Programme, Ireland's archaeological research institute funded by the Heritage Council, has examined the nature of Gaelic lordship and settlement in north Roscommon during the later medieval period, c. 1170–1650 AD. Since 2003, elements of this work have focused on the history and development of Tulsk as the principal residence of the O'Conor Roe (Rua) lords. Excavation on the ringfort in Tulsk village has revealed several periods of settlement, which include a medieval castle-building phase and an Elizabethan-period (c. 1560-1590s) occupation when the mound was included as part of the works associated with the garrisoning of Tulsk by Sir Richard Bingham, the ‘Flail of Connacht’.
In 2009, the archaeological team focused on a series of strata that explain the dating and development of the site. This work considered the ringfort that underlies the medieval tower and identified a boulder clay bank and ditch. It also showed the levels of soil introduced at a later date to build up the ringfort into a 'platform' of 'raised rath' form, sometime before the building of the medieval tower. These excavations also revealed prehistoric levels that extend back into the Mesolithic period, before the time of farming and when hunting and gathering prevailed.[citation needed] Information on finds are presented in the Cruachan Aí Heritage Centre in Tulsk.[citation needed]
Tulsk was previously a parliamentary borough, one of three in County Roscommon from the period 1663 to 1800, and was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons. Under the co-monarchs William III of England and Mary II of England, Tulsk was first represented in the Commons by William Caulfeild and William Neave in 1692. The year marked what was to be the beginning of an extended period of dominance for the Protestant Ascendancy. One of the two seats was effectively hereditary in the Caulfeild family.
In 1779, the artist Gabriel Beranger travelled throughout Ireland to paint the 'antiquities’ of Ireland for the Hibernian Antiquarian Society. On his travels he passed through Tulsk and Rathcroghan. He noted that on May Day he witnessed a scene ‘peculiar to this locality’:
It was that of ‘driving in all the black cattle from the surrounding plains to the great fort of Rathcroghan Mound, and bleeding them for the benefit of their health, while crowds of country people, having brought turf for firing, sat around and cooked the blood mixed with oaten meal, and when they could be procured, onions or scallions.