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Earthwork

Cush, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Cush, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cush
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Partially hachured (1928)
Coordinates
52.38631, -8.44410
SMR number
LI048-034002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

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

References

Westropp, T.J. 1919 The ancient places of assembly in the counties Limerick and Clare. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 49, 1-24.

CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com

Ó Ríordáin, S.P. 1940 Excavations at Cush, Co. Limerick (1934 and 1935). Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 45, 83-181.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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