Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Rushanes, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rushanes
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.56852, -9.10694
- SMR number
- CO142-036001-
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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
On the ESE side of the remains of the bank of a rath (CO142-036----) which is densely overgrown with blackthorn bushes. A well-set upright stone slab (H 0.8m; 0.9m x 0.2m), orientated WNW-ESE. A second prostrate stone (0.95m x 0.8m) lies embedded in the ground 1.5m to the NE. According to local information, these stones mark a burial.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.