County: Cork Site name: Boherash
Sites and Monuments Record No.: CO027-042005- Licence number: 18E0738
Author: Eamonn Cotter
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 575480m, N 604411m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.190947, -8.358621
Testing on a green-field site at Boherash, on the northern edge of the modern village of Glanworth, found that the site was bisected by an east-west ditch of unknown date. No archaeological features were found north of that ditch, but a concentration of features was found to the south including ditches, a hearth, stone foundations, a metalled surface and other unidentified features, all assumed to be remnants of previous settlement in the area.
Evidence for medieval occupation was found in excavations a short distance to the south in 2004 (see 2004:0272), including a ditch running north-south. It is tentatively suggested that that north-south ditch may have intersected with the east-west ditch in these test trenches, beyond the limits of the test area, and that together they mark the eastern and northern boundaries of the medieval borough of Glanworth.
Ballynanelagh, Rathcormac, Co. Cork
