County: Cork Site name: RUSHEEN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1774
Author: Margaret McCarthy, Archaeological Services Unit Ltd, Department of Archaeology, University College Cork
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 538136m, N 576155m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.934067, -8.899627
Testing was carried out before the development of two dwelling-houses at Rusheen, Coachford, Co. Cork. The development site is within the constraint zone of a standing stone (SMR 60:124(01)) and a Roman Catholic church (SMR 60:124(03)). There was no trace of either of these monuments on the ground when the site was inspected. The standing stone does not appear in the 1842 or 1904 editions of the OS maps but is clearly indicated as a ‘Gallán’ in the 1936 edition. It was visited by P.J. Hartnett in 1939, who recorded it in his MA thesis as an upright single standing stone measuring ‘60 inches in height’. The stone was re-examined by the Cork Archaeological Survey in 1982, and at that stage it lay flat on the ground (Power et al. 1997). There is a more tenuous record of an old church on the proposed development site. This is marked as a ‘Roman Catholic Church’ on the 1842 OS map and appears to be in the south-eastern corner of the site. It does not appear on the second and third editions. Hartnett’s (1939) records show the church to be on the other side of the road to the south-east of the proposed development.
Six trenches were excavated. No finds or features were uncovered.
References
Hartnett, P.J. 1939 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of East Muskerry. Unpublished MA thesis, University College Cork.
Power, D., Byrne, E., Egan, U., Lane, S. and Sleeman, M. 1997 Archaeological inventory of County Cork. Volume III: mid Cork. Dublin.
