What is recorded here
In pasture, 50m NE of Glennacroghery Stream, in NE quadrant of an archaeological complex (LI048-034001/035-), enclosure (LI048-034003-) lies 50m to the SW. Not marked on the 1840 or 1897 ed. OSi historic maps. Poorly preserved earthwork is partially depicted on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map as a semi-circular shaped area (dims. c. 21m N-S; 37m E-W) defined by a scarp from E-S-W and fosse from S-W, intersected at SE by a road running NE-SW. Described by Ó Ríordáin (1940, 86) as one of three forts in the townland of Cush, consisting of ‘the raised-centre, flat top kind’. Outline of semi-circular shaped earthwork visible on oblique aerial photograph (CUCAP BGK051) taken 17/07/1971. Curving arc of fosse at S with faint trace of fosse at N visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Also visible are two linear cropmarks running NW-SE, intersecting the monument at W and N. The linear cropmark at N is a relic post-1700 relic field boundary depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Faint trace of circular cropmark visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 19/03/2015.
See attached plan from Ó Ríordáin, Google Earth orthoimages and oblique aerial photograph.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 13 August 2021
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