[3] The village is situated at a crossroads that includes Vaughan's pub, known as "The Bush" and St. Brigid's National School.

[citation needed] Cutbush was known as Cearna as recently as the mid 19th century, with some Irish reportedly still spoken there at that time.

[5] The village is home to two buildings previously used as national schools, including an early Board of Works design for the Board of Education, located on the Cutbush Road, constructed in the 1920s,[6] as well as an early primary school building dating from the 1830s, now renovated as a private home.

[7] Cutbush has also retained (in its original location) a manual waterpump dating from c.1900 that supplied the village with a communal water source.

[citation needed] The village's name features in a song by Christy Moore called "Welcome to the Cabaret" - the quote being[11]