Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Rusheen (Boyle By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rusheen (Boyle By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Altar
- Coordinates
- 53.95410, -8.21433
- SMR number
- RO006-150----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the N-facing slope of a low rise in a low-lying landscape. Rectangular overgrown, flat-topped cairn (dims 4.2m N-S; 3m E-W; H 0.1m at S to 0.38m at N) with an uninscribed flat slab (dims 1.17m E-W; 0.73m N-S; T 0.15m) set horizontally at its N edge. It is surrounded by trees. (Beirne 2000, 181)
See the attached image taken from the N
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Beirne, Rev. F. 2000 The Diocese of Elphin. People, places and pilgrimage. Blackrock. The Columba Press.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.