What is recorded here

Rusheens East holds a blocked stone passage beneath a rocky knoll, visible only in local memory and the strange geometry of its pasture setting. The entrance faced northeast beside a field wall, suggesting people cut through solid ground rather than waiting for a natural cave. Its disappearance does not remove the act of making it; it returns the passage to the region’s older patience, where human ambition appears briefly and the earth takes it back.

In pasture, located in a rocky knoll. According to local tradition, there is a ‘cave’ or Man-made underground passage in the knoll; it consists of a stone-built passage, the entrance to which was on the NE side of the knoll, immediately to N of a field wall that traverses the knoll on an E–W axis. The passage was blocked up and there are now no visible remains. The knoll (c. 15m N–S; c. 10m E–W) was known as a ‘fort’, however, there is no visible evidence of an enclosure. It has a relatively flat top (c. 8m N−S; c. 6m E−W) and a rather irregular and rocky surface, with stones and boulders protruding randomly at the base of the knoll. It is crossed by a field wall on its N edge and is engulfed in blackthorn, hawthorn and brambles. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 June 2021

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