Burial in Rushanes — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Blackthorn bushes strangle the rath bank where two stones still mark a dead man’s place. One upright slab faces east, the other lies flat beside it, both unchanged since before records began. The living forgot the name, but the field kept the shape of the loss.

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

A portal dolmen dating to the Neolithic period. Its significance lies in its association with early megalithic funerary practices in the region.

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