What is recorded here

Cush holds a raised oval earthwork beside Glounnacroghery Stream, large enough to carry a house, a herd or a gathering, and old enough that no name has survived to say which. Its scarp leans over the ravine like a bench built for watching, while the scrub-choked ditch beside it marks the edge of a place people shaped before maps learned to draw it.

In pasture, immediately SW of Glounnacroghery Stream, in the N quadrant of an archaeological complex (LI048-034001/035-). Not marked on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised oval-shaped area (dims. c. 24m NW-SE; 28m NE-SW) defined by a scarp overlooking ravine to NE. Shown on the Caisini ed. OSi 6-inch map as a raised oval-shaped platform defined by a scarp with external fosse from E-SSE. Described by Ó Ríordáin (1940, 86) as one of three forts in the townland of Cush, consisting of ‘the raised-centre, flat top kind’. Westropp (1918, 119) recorded this monument as one of ‘the rings to either side of the gully of Glounnacroghera.’ Outline of circular-shaped earthwork visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Also visible is the scrub-filled fosse to the SE of the monument as depicted on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map. See attached plan from Ó Ríordáin and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 24 August 2021

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