Despite significant efforts being made over the last year to secure future long-term funding, the Farming Rathcroghan Project, in its current guise, is set to cease operations at the end of March.

The CLG has been in operation for eight years, giving resources and paying 90 farmers across the mid-Roscommon area to proactively manage and maintain the 266+ archaeological sites which constitute the Rathcroghan Archaeological Landscape.

The company is currently exploring funding options to secure core costs for continued operation of the project in a limited capacity

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This project was initially delivered through a European Innovation Partnership (EIP) from 2019-2024, and was expanded, through a competitive funding award from the EU Just Transition Fund, which will bring the project in its current guise to an end in March 2026.

As it stands now, the lack of finances will see the project office for Farming Rathcroghan closed and an end to the tenure of staff, as well as all programmes, all the scheme farmer supports and payments.

The company is currently exploring funding options to secure core costs for continued operation of the project in a limited capacity from April 2026 to December 2026.

If successful, the company would enable the project to function on an interim basis so that works can continue in processing a number of potential long-term funding opportunities which may see the project continued in some form.