A ditch barrow, which is a burial mound defined and enclosed by a surrounding ditch rather than built up into a prominent earthen heap, lies here with almost nothing to show for itself at surface level. It does not appear on the historic Ordnance Survey Ireland maps, and aerial photography taken between 2011 and 2013 recorded no visible remains whatsoever. Only a faint outline emerged when Google Earth imagery captured the site on 20th March 2018, and even then it was tentative enough to be catalogued as a possible ditch barrow rather than a confirmed one. The site belongs to a category of monument that announces itself not through drama but through the slow negotiation between buried archaeology and whatever the season has done to the grass above it.

The barrow is one of two recorded at Cush under the reference numbers LI048-033001 and LI048-033002, both excavated by Ó Ríordáin and published in 1936. The work took place on land belonging to a Mr W. O'Donnell, and Ó Ríordáin noted that a second similar barrow was excavated in the same field, adding that others could be seen at certain states of the vegetation. That observation speaks to how the archaeology of this area tends to behave: present but elusive, disclosing itself intermittently depending on soil moisture, grass growth, and the angle of light. The poorly drained nature of the pasture is, paradoxically, part of what makes such traces visible at all, since waterlogged ground can preserve the differential growth patterns in vegetation that betray buried features to a careful eye or a well-timed satellite pass.

The site is not accessible as a visitor destination in any formal sense, and there is nothing on the ground that a casual visitor would recognise without prior knowledge of the location. Those with a serious interest can consult the Record of Monuments and Places map, which marks the location with a reference point, and compare it against the 2018 Google Earth orthoimage to get a sense of where the faint ditch outline falls within the field. The best chance of seeing any surface trace is likely when vegetation growth is uneven, particularly in dry spells following wet periods, when the buried ditch may encourage slightly different grass colour or density above it. Even then, what you are looking at is less a monument than an inference, a mark the earth makes almost reluctantly.