County: Cork Site name: Mohera
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 21E0777
Author: Eamonn Cotter
Site type: No known archaeology
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 584238m, N 593034m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.089002, -8.230004
Archaeological testing was carried out at Mohera, Castlelyons in January 2022, in advance of a proposed extension to the existing GAA training/playing facilities. The adjacent village of Castlelyons originated as a medieval settlement. Its castle ruin survives a short distance to the southwest and extensive remains of its Carmelite priory survive a short distance to the northeast. A geophysics survey carried out in advance of the testing detected numerous anomalies, many of which were regarded as being ‘possibly’ archaeological in origin.
The test trenching revealed a number of cultivation furrows and two linear ditches interpreted as field boundaries, probably dating to the 18th/19th centuries.
Ballynanelagh, Rathcormac, Co. Cork
