  To understand low- to intermediate-mass star-formation in the nearby R CrA
molecular cloud, we try to identify the stellar content that is accessible with
near-infrared observations. We obtained a JHK band mosaic of 10 x 60 arcmin
square covering the entire RCrA molecular cloud with unprecedented sensitivity.
We present a catalogue of about 3500 near-infrared sources fainter than the
saturation limit K = 10 mag, reaching K = 18mag. We analysed the extended
sources by inspecting their morphology and point sources by means of
colour-colour and colour-magnitude diagrams. Additionally, we compared the
extinction inferred from the NIR data with the line-of-sight dust emission at
1.2 mm. Sources towards high dust emission but relatively low H-K show a
projected mm-exces; these sources are either immediately surrounded by cold
circumstellar material or, if too red to be a true foreground object, they are
embedded in the front layer of the 1.2 mm emitting dust cloud. In both cases
they are most likely associated with the cloud.
