Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Ballyrusheen, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyrusheen
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.19585, -8.81003
- SMR number
- CO024-249----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A test excavation, in advance of the construction of a dwelling-house, was carried out in 2003 in the vicinity of a rath (CO024-068----). Excavation revealed a small pit-like feature of unknown date. (Cleary 2006b, 37)
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.