Offaly and based on radiocarbon dating he died sometime between 362 BC and 175 BC.

Old Croghan Man has a leather amulet, decorated in the fashionable continental style, on his arm. It represents the sun, with which Irish kingship is closely associated. He also had his nipples sliced before he died. Together, these features suggest that he was a king. The king’s nipples represented the life-giving sun. Their cutting suggests that their power was being ritually decommissioned.