Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - radial-stone cairn
Rusheen (muskerry East By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rusheen (muskerry East By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.93066, -8.89216
- SMR number
- CO060-202002-
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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 a woodland copse, on a flat terrace of a gentle S-facing slope. The S, and better preserved, of two linked cairns consists of a ring of nineteen radially-set stones (diam. 5.5m) protruding from the remains of a cairn (max. H 0.5m). Stones vary in height from 0.22m to 0.65m above the cairn surface. The cairn extends to NW as a narrow (Wth 0.5m) causeway-like feature (L 3m) where it joins with its counterpart (CO060-202001-). Two uprights (max. H 0.57m) protrude from the NW edge of this causeway. The ground plan of both monuments resembles a pair of spectacles.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.