Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Rusheen (muskerry East By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rusheen (muskerry East By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1938)
- Coordinates
- 51.93267, -8.90078
- SMR number
- CO060-165----
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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
In Cusheen Wood, c. 40m to N of roadway. Roofless, gabled, rectangular structure (13.38m NE-SW; 6.96m NW-SE); named 'Chapel of Ease' on 1842 OS 6-inch map, described by O'Donoghue (1986, 274) as 'an old Protestant church which was closed in or about 1912'. Interior covered in low overgrowth. Door (Wth 0.97m) in centre of S wall, wooden lintel (now gone) with flat stone arch overhead. Outside door is small added porch with a door in its S wall. Tall windows (H c. 2.7m; Wth c. 1.37m) with wooden lintels (now gone) on either side of door in S wall; similar windows in centre of E and W gables (lintel remains only in E window). Small lintelled fireplace in centre of N wall, overhead is chimney stack. External walls plastered. Built on low plinth (H c. 0.25m) which projects out 0.07m at base.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.