Burial in Rushanes, County Cork

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What is recorded here

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. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO142-036001

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