Boherash

90 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boherash, from 32 m² to 287,802 m² (28.78 ha, 71.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• G3Green Infrastructure (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Green Infrastructure (Open space, park)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 25 Jun 2025Conditional permission

  Permission to erect a single storey dwellinghouse, detached single storey domestic garage with septic tank and percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5228

• 8 Sept 2023Refused

  A single storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, stables and arena for private use, waste water treatment system and percolation area, bored well, site entrance and all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5820

• 23 Jun 2023Refused

  Permission to construct a new vehicular entrance with all associated site and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5294

• 20 Dec 2022Withdrawn

  Single storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, stables and arena for private use, waste water treatment system and percolation area, bored well, site entrance and all associated and ancillary site works.

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 22/6823

• 25 Nov 2022Incompleted application

  Single storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, stables and arena for private use, waste water treatment system and percolation area, bored well, site entrance and all associated and ancillary site works.

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 22/6632

• 9 Nov 2022Conditional

  Planning permission for retention of demolition of an existing dwellinghouse, planning permission to erect a dwellinghouse and planning permission for retention and completion of an existing extension (to rear of demolished dwellinghouse) to be incorporated into the proposed new dwellinghouse and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6508

• 29 Jun 2022Withdrawn

  Outline permission for a single storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, stables and arena for private use, waste water treatment system and percolation area, bored well, site entrance and all associated and ancillary site works.

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 22/5530

• 22 Sept 2021Conditional

  Proposed works to an existing dwelling house to include the construction of a single storey side extension, alterations to the existing roof to the rear to form large dormer, material alterations to existing elevations and all associated landscaping and site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6599

• 3 Feb 2021Conditional

  To construct a new two storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house with alterations to the side and rear elevations of the existing dwelling, the construction of a new domestic garage and a new home office building, the replacement of the existing percolation area, with all associated site and ancillary works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4224

• 16 Sept 2020Conditional

  The construction of a dwellinghouse and garage, and all associated ancillary site and landscaping works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6016

• 12 Apr 2019Conditional

  The proposed works to an existing dwellinghouse to include the demolition of side and rear extensions and rear decked area, material alterations to existing elevations and roof, and the construction of a dormer roof window, entrance porch and utility and a single storey rear and side extension, and all associated landscaping and site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4918

• 6 Mar 2019Incompleted application

  Proposed works to an existing dwelling house to include the demolition of side and rear extension and rear decked area, material alterations to existing elevations and roof, and the construction of a dormer roof window, entrance porch and a single storey rear extension, and all associated landscaping and site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4551

• 26 Sept 2018Conditional

  The construction of a dwelling, domestic garage, entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6535

• 25 Sept 2018Conditional

  Installation of temporary classroom and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6532

• 5 Sept 2018Conditional

  The construction of a dwelling, domestic garage, entrance and all associated siteworks.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6349

• 10 Aug 2018Incompleted application

  Installation of temporary classroom and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6123

• 7 Jul 2017Conditional

  Retention of detached resource rooms and permission for construction of extension to school for use as new resource room and sensory room

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5750

• 8 May 2017Incompleted application

  Retention of existing resource rooms and Permission for new resource room and sensory room.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5105

• 17 Feb 2017Conditional

  Retention of existing ground floor rear extension, Permission for the construction of a first floor rear extension and alterations to front porch of dwellinghouse and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4348

• 22 Sept 2016Conditional

  (1) Remove existing eastern, southern and western concrete post and concrete rail perimeter fence and erect new 1.2m high P.V.C coated chain link fence and P.V.C coated posts around the entire perimeter of green area, (2) Construct new playground area for children together with its associated play equipment, (3) Alter and relocate existing footpath for the provision of 12 no. parking spaces, (4) alter and construct new store and wheelchair toilet in existing school shelter,(5) Construct new parking area to rear of school, (6) Construct all-weather pitch in school grounds with 3m high plastic coated perimeter post and fencing with 8 no. 12m high lamp standards, (7) Ccnstruct 2 no. tennis courts in school grounds with 2m high plastic coated posts and fencing with 4 no. 12m high lamp standards and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6346

• 31 Aug 2016Incompleted application

  (1) Remove existing eastern, southern and western concrete post and concrete rail perimeter fence and erect new 1.2m high P.V.C coated chain link fence and P.V.C coated posts around the entire perimeter of green area, (2) Construct new playground area for children together with its associated play equipment, (3) Alter and relocate existing footpath for the provision of 12 no. parking spaces, (4) alter and construct new store and wheelchair toilet in existing school shelter,(5) Construct new parking area to rear of school, (6) Construct all-weather pitch in school grounds with 3m high plastic coated perimeter post and fencing with 8 no. 12m high lamp standards, (7) construct 2 no. tennis courts in school grounds with 2m high plastic coated posts and fencing with 4 no. 12m high lamp standards and associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6182

• 21 Jul 2016Conditional

  The construction of a 2.4m high fence to the East boundary and to a section of the Southern boundary of the school site and all associated ancillary site & landscaping works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5826

• 22 Apr 2016Conditional

  Construction of hurling wall and alterations and partial change of use of existing changing room buildings to gymnasium and disabled shower/wc (change of design and alterations to part of development permitted under Planning Reg. No. 13/6381) and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4917

• 24 Mar 2016Incompleted application

  Change of use of existing changing rooms to a gymnasium and disabled shower/WC, and alterations to elevations to include construction of new entrance and all associated landscaping , fencing and site works. And Permission for change of the design permitted under planning ref: 13/6381 to include alterations to hurling wall and changing rooms

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4672

• 18 Dec 2014Conditional

  Two-storey dwelling, domestic garage and site entrance, with all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/6720

The 25 most recent of 65 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Boherash.

Recorded monuments

• CO027-038 Standing stone
  Description

  Not marked on 1842 and 1906 OS 6-inch maps. In pasture, in flood plain, on E side of River Funcheon. Stone (H 1.95m; 1.1m x 0.7m) is subrectangular in plan and irregular in shape, long axis ESE-WNW. Packing stones exposed at base. Entire stone covered with graffiti. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO027-039 Country house
  Description

  Two-storey house; now called Boherash House. Entrance front (E) of 5 bays; central porch entrance; sash windows with glazing bars. Double gable-ended with chimneys on gable ends. Rear section earlier in appearance with steeply pitched roof and attic windows (now blocked) in gable ends. Central stairway window on rear elevation. According to inscribed slate found by owner, house built in 1840s; this likely date for front of house- rear probably 19th century. Two-storey mid-/late-19th century farm building to rear. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO027-040 Religious house - Dominican friars
  Description

  On the W side of road leading N from Glanworth village. The remains of the Dominican Priory of the Holy Cross consist in a rectangular church comprised of a nave and chancel divided by a tower; there are no standing remains of the claustral ranges, which stood N of the church (Leask 1960, 182). While the Roche family has been given as the main founders c. 1475 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 225), a document in the Calendar of Papal Letters dating to April 1475 states that the bishop of Cork and Cloyne and a Dominican friar petitioned the pope to allow ‘John de Geraldinis, knight of Kerry’ to give the friars an ‘abandoned stone wall and certain lands adjacent thereto in the town of Gleannwyr’, which is the Irish form of Glanworth (Twemlow 1955, 433). This may have been the 6th Knight of Kerry, John Caoch fitz Nicholas (Mosley 2003). The Fitzgeralds were great benefactors of the Dominican order (Lafaye 2012, 106). Smith (1750, vol. 1, 344) says it was founded in 1227 but there appears to be no other evidence for this date. The surviving remains are late 15th/16th-century in appearance; though the chancel is earlier than the nave and tower, there was probably only a short period between their construction. The chancel (int. 14.17m E-W; 6.82m N-S) has a door, facing inwards, E of centre in the N wall; the surround has a pointed arch and a wicker-centred vault covers the doorway to the rear. The central window in the E gable has four round-headed lights surmounted by switchline tracery, covered by hood moulding; this window was returned from the nearby C of I church (Manning 2000, 4); the rear arch of the window embrasure is bluntly pointed with chamfered edging (there is a similar rear arch on all other window embrasures in the church). Three windows in the S wall of the chancel all have double ogee-headed lights, with recessed spandrels and hood moulding, the stonework recently restored. A piscina niche, near the E end of the S wall, has a pointed arch; there is a credence shelf halfway up the niche. There is a small wall press at the E end of the N wall. The Nave (int. 13.9m E-W; 6.77m N-S) has a central window in the W gable, missing its light, and two windows on the S wall: the easternmost window has a single round-headed light, the other a twin ogee-headed light. There is a wall press under the easternmost window. Access to the nave was through a doorway at the W end of the S wall, but it is now blocked up. Between the nave and the chancel is a 4-storey tower; the chancel appears to be earlier than the tower and nave (which are contemporary), judging by the line of quoins on the exterior N and S walls of the chancel, in line with the E face of the tower, which likely mark where the construction of the chancel ended and that of the tower and nave began. The tower rises from four tall pointed arches, facing N, E, S and W; the arches have chamfered edges and a central chamfered soffit arch rising from pointed terminals. Behind the N and S arches are wicker-centred vaults extending to the side walls; a central window on the S wall under the vault has a single ogee-headed light in a splayed and lintelled embrasure; the N wall has an outward-facing doorway under pointed arch, slightly E of centre. All floors and the roof of the tower were wooden. The first floor chamber is accessed via doorways at the E end of the N and S walls, from a wall walk along the N and S walls of the church; a lintelled ope in the E wall overlooks the choir. Stairs rise from the W side of the doorway in the N wall, to the second-floor level where a door at the W end of the N wall gives access to the chamber. The latter is lit by a window with single ogee-headed light, in the centre of the S wall; a lintelled door in the centre of the E wall gave access to the attic over the choir. The third-floor chamber was probably accessed via a trap door from the floor below; it is lit by a central window in each wall: twin ogee-headed lights to the W and S, single lights to the E and N. The flashing course for the roof of the nave and the chancel are visible on the W and E faces of tower; the W face shows the plaster shadow from the re-roofing of the nave. A string course and corbels along the exterior N face of the chancel supported a cloister-walk lean-to roof; no other remains of the claustral ranges are now evident, though a report dating to the dissolution of the friary in 1541 mentioned a cloister, dormitory, hall and other buildings (White 1943, 149). According to local information, these were demolished in the 19th century to provide stones for the building of the Glanworth-Mitchelstown road (the New Line), immediately E of the friary. This is a National Monument in State Ownership (no. 558). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Photographs attached: CO027-040----_01: Aerial view of friary, from SE. CO027-040----_02: View of friary from SE. CO027-040----_03: Interior of chancel from W. CO027-040----_04: E window from E. CO027-040----_05: Piscina, S wall of chancel. CO027-040----_06: Interior of nave, from E. CO027-040----_07: blocked doorway, S wall of nave. CO027-040----_08: Central tower, from W. CO027-040----_09: S wall of tower and chancel, showing restored windows and quoins indicating the limit between the phases of construction of the chancel, and the tower and nave. CO027-040----_10: SW pointed terminal of W tower arch soffit arch. CO027-040----_11: Exterior face of the N wall of the church, with string course and corbels along the upper part. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 Date of last revision: 17 July 2023 References 1. Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1970 (Reprint 1988) Medieval religious houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press. 2. Lafaye, A-J. 2012 ‘Medieval Mendicant communities in East Munster: history, archaeology, landscapes’. Unpublished thesis. University College Dublin. 3. Leask, H. 1960 Irish churches and monastic building, vol. 3. Dundalk. Dundalgan Press. 4. Manning, C. 2000 Glanworth: a medieval castle, friary and town in County Cork. Archaeology Ireland, Heritage Guide n. 9. 5. Mosley, C. (ed) 2003 Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A. Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd. 6. Smith, C. 1750 The ancient and present state of the County and City of Cork, 2 vols. Cork. Guy and Co. Ltd. 7. Twemlow, J. A. (ed) 1955 Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 13, 1471-1484. London. Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 8. White, N. 1943 Extents of Irish Monastic Possessions 1540-1541. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.

• CO027-041001 Graveyard
  Description

  Immediately N of Glanworth village; entered via short passage from road to W. Roughly rectangular graveyard (c. 70m N-S; c. 75m E-W) enclosed by stone wall, entered through gateway at N end of W wall. Ruin of C of I parish church of Glanworth (14702) in NW quadrant. In occasional use. Burials throughout graveyard, concentrated to E and S; earliest headstone noted dated 1724. Low uninscribed gravemarkers some iof which are reused medieval jambs, and some altar tombs to E of church. Remains of earlier parish church (14399) immediately outside SE corner. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO027-041002 Church
  Description

  In NW quadrant of graveyard (CO027-041001-), immediately N of Glanworth village. Ruin of the former C of I parish church of Glanworth, consisting of a nave with tower at the W end. It was built in the early 18th century on the site of the earlier parish church (CO027-041003-) which was in ruins in 1615, and still in 1694 (Brady 1863. vol. 2, 214-6). Smith (1750, vol. 1, 344) describes the church as 'lately rebuilt'- this probably dates the construction rather that a refurbishment. The communion plate presented by the bishop to the 'Church of Glanore' in 1723 could mark the date of consecration. The tower was added c. 1799 (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 3, 136-7). The walls are rendered over random-rubble limestone, with ashlar quoins. The rectangular nave (22m EW; 9m NS) has 3 pointed blocked windows in the S wall and 2 in the N wall. There is a vestry at the E end of the N wall with a burial vault inside. The E window was a tall pointed light, which was removed to the Dominican friary church (CO027-040----) where, according to local information, it originally came from. The pointed W doorway has a cut limestone surround; it is now blocked. The tower is 3-storey, with each floor diminishing in size with height and marked by a string course; there is a blocked door in the S wall. The tower is topped with raised pinnacle-like corners. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 Photographs attached CO027-041002-_01: View of the church from NW. CO027-041002-_02: E gable of the church, from E. CO027-041002-_03: Tower and S wall, from S. CO027-041002-_04: Interior of the church, from E.

• CO027-041003 Church
  Description

  Immediately W of the road and immediately outside the S end of the E wall of a graveyard (CO027-041001-). This rectangular structure (int: 7.75m N-S; 3.7m E-W), consists of a single vaulted chamber (vault axis N-S), partially below the present ground level. On inspection the top of the structure was sod covered, except for a stump of masonry at the SW corner. The 1842 OS 6-inch map shows a L-shaped structure here (c. 12m N-S; c. 13m E-W; Wth S arm c. 4m; Wth E arm c. 3m) named 'friary (in ruins)' - but there is no other friary at Glanworth listed in Gwynn and Hadcock (1988), beside the Dominican friary (‘Rock Abbey’, CO027-040----), located N. of the village, c. 200m from this structure. Windele, writing c.1849 (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 3, 137), appears to describe this structure as the 'ruins of the old parochial church; very ruinous; a vault beneath it inhabited by some poor family!'. Byrne (1912, 169) described it as 'vestiges' of a church or religious house, but was unable to find any information on it. This structure therefore is likely to be part of the medieval parish church of Glanworth, perhaps the base of a residential tower attached to the church. The church at Glanworth was reported 'in ruins' in 1615 (Brady 1863, vol. 2, 214). Each side wall of the chamber has two shallow square-set recesses covered by a segmental arch, of which only the top 0.3m is now visible due to the build-up of debris on the floor of the chamber. There is a similar embrasure at the W end of the N wall but it is missing its arch. There are fragmentary remains of an arched ope high up on the S wall. At the E end of the N wall is a doorway leading to mural stairs ascending to the W; the stairway is partially blocked with debris. Externally, the ground now covers the walls almost to the level of the vault; the outer face has fallen on the S and E sides but the S part of the W wall remains, forming part of the graveyard boundary; the N part is replaced by a later wall which continues for a short distance (c. 2m) to the N beyond the NW corner of the tower and pre-dates the continuation of the graveyard wall. The W part of the S graveyard boundary consists of wall in three sections: the first (L 4.6m) post dates the vaulted structure but pre-dates the next section of wall (L 6m), which is similar to the E graveyard wall; the third section (L 5.3m; H c. 6m) appears to be the wall of a building formerly extending to the S of the graveyard, butt-ended to the W, continuing c. 1m to the E as a low wall (H c. 1m). This is a National Monument in State Ownership (no. 558). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO027-041004 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In flood plain on SW side of Funshion River, just N of Glanworth. Well overgrown; water runs off to NE; site marked by sandstone plinth (1m x 1m; H 1m) to SE; no longer in holy use. Smith (1750, vol. 2, 344) described 'a fine spring, bubbling out of a limestone rock, of limpid water...over the well is a large old tree on the boughs of which an infinite number of rags of all colours are tied'. Windele (1897, 379) called it 'famous' and said that those who drank from it would 'ever after have a longing desire to return to Glanworth'. Named 'Tober na scruinahur holy well, St Dominick's well or perhaps the well of the priest' in OS Field Book of 1840 (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 3, 135). Byrne (1912, 174) gives well name as 'Cronee, probably dedicated to a virgin of that name which appears in Martyrology of Tallaght'. An obelisk to shelter pilgrims from bad weather was built near the well c. 1870 by local eccentric named Sheehan. This is illustrated and described by Byrne in Grove White (1905-25, vol. 3, 135, photograph opp. 132); it was 'about 18 or 20 feet' high, square in form and tapering to a point. Several crosses are built into the work and at one time it was surmounted by an iron cross. There is an arched chamber at the base...still closer to the holy well is another smaller structure, on which is fixed a little wooden case containing statues'. Plinth adjacent to well probably remains of this structure. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 Images provided by and copyright of Amanda Clarke 2016-2022 https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/

• CO027-042001 Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle
  Description

  In rich limestone pasture land, on a promontory overlooking the River Funshion and Glanworth Bridge (CO027-042003-). This castle has natural defences on two sides, a sheer cliff to the E and a steep slope to the S, while the ground rises gently to the N and W. The castle was originally built in the 13th century, possibly on an earlier site associated with the Eoganacht Glennamnach, the pre-Norman dynasty ruling the territory around Glanworth (Manning 2009, 1), though no clear evidence for early-medieval activity was found during the excavation of the castle (Ibid., 136). The castle perimeter is defined by a roughly four-sided walled enclosure with small towers at each corner, three circular and one square (see plan in Manning ibid., 13). Near the SE corner of the enclosure is a 13th-century hall-keep of two storeys and an attic (ext. 13.2m N-W; 11.4m E-W, including the base batter; T 2.25m at the base; int. 8.8m N-S; 6.8m E-W). The original entrance is at 1st-floor level in the N wall. Large beam holes for the original 1st floor are visible; these were later replaced with a double barrel vault partly supported by a N-S wall. The only original openings in the ground floor were three arrow loops. At 1st-floor level are two narrow windows, in the E and W walls, built of undressed stones. Also at this level is a garderobe entered through a doorway at the S end of the W wall. The attic floor, above the main chamber, has one loop-like window in the middle of the N wall. Remains of a parapet wall (c. 0.8m) survive at the S and N ends of the keep. Excavation in 1982-84 (Manning 2009; see plans, 137) established four main phases of construction, and revealed a complicated range of buildings on the W side of the castle (see plan in ibid., 31). The earliest building was a 13th-century rectangular gatehouse (ext. L 15m; Wth 8.8m) with chambers at each side of a roughly central gate passage. The gatehouse was built at the same time as the original curtain walls, which were bonded to its N and S walls. The room to the S of the gate passage (L6m; Wth 3.2m) was vaulted above the 1st floor. The only opening in the ground floor is a doorway in the E wall. Above the vault, at 2nd-floor level, is part of a blocked-up doorway which would have given access onto the wall-walk of the curtain wall. The area to the N of the passage consists in two tiny vaulted prisons with trapdoor entrances in their vaults. Plank-centering is visible underneath each vault (W vault: 3.67m N-S; 2.61m E-W; H 1.64m to 1.92m; E vault: 3.65m N-S; 2.43 E-W; H 1.4m to 1.7m). The room above the vaults (L 6.1m; Wth 3.6m), had originally two openings in the E wall, the one to the S probably the doorway. A Sheela-na-gig was found in the western vaulted prison during excavation, and it appeared to have deliberately hidden away here in or before the 17th century (Ibid., 91-3; Manning 1987). In a second phase of building, the gate passage was blocked at each end and the building extended northwards, forming the new NW corner of the castle. A new entrance gateway was opened in the curtain wall immediately S of the gatehouse. The northern extension created two new spaces, a room to the E and a narrow passage to the W (L 8.3m; Wth 1.5m max), with a connecting doorway between the two and a stairway rising from it within the dividing wall, which was itself built in place on the original curtain wall there. The eastern room (L 8.4m; Wth 3m) had a doorway to the S end of the E wall, and a loop or window to the N end of it. A third phase of building, dating from the 15th century, saw the building heightened and a new battered face added to encase the earlier work, though this was not completed (Ibid., 38). In addition, a garderobe turret was added near the SW corner, which survives to full height, a testament to the quality of the masonry and mortar used. The turret chamber, at 1st-floor level (L 3.2m; Wth 1.7m), was accessed through a doorway in the now missing E wall, and had one tiny opening for light. The 2nd floor was comprised of a narrow vaulted chamber (L 3.1m; Wth 1.15m) with a double garderobe, and another small vaulted room (Wth 1.8m). The garderobe chamber had 3 slit openings, and the chutes (L 0.7m; Wth 0.3m) were placed side by side against the W wall. Above were two more storeys, with ogee-headed windows in the three remaining walls, and finally the parapet (wall T 0.35m). During the same phase, new sections of curtain wall were built on the W and S sides. The new W curtain wall extended further W than the original, and included the construction of a small circular tower at the N end and a square one at the S end. Circular corner towers were also added to the SE and NE corners of the castle at this stage and a new main entrance gateway opened in the N curtain wall. Beneath the phase-3 W curtain wall, near its S end, an earlier E-W wall was found running towards the SW corner of the original castle. This may have been part of a town wall, or the wall of an outer bailey. Remains of a long building extending along the cliff top to the E (L 40m; Wth 8.5m), with large openings overlooking the river and a circular tower at its SE corner, may be a later medieval hall altered in the 16th and 17th centuries (see plan ibid., 13), though ‘its position in the building history of the castle is difficult to establish’ (Ibid., 14). A possible earlier hall (L 34m E-W; 10m N-S), was identified in the NE of the castle, with the curtain wall as its N wall, and its chamber block projecting towards the edge of the cliff to the E. Minor additions were made to the castle in the late 16th and 17th centuries, including a kitchen in the NW corner and a bakehouse, with a large bread oven, in the SW corner. The floor of the bread oven was paved with old querns or millstones (see photograph Mould 1991, 152) made of sandstone, chosen to withstand the great heat created. Occupation of the castle continued into the 18th century, and by the 19th century, it had become a ruin and was quarried for stone. This is a National Monument in State Ownership (no. 558) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000), and the published report on the excavations carried out in 1982-84: Con Manning, ‘The History and Archaeology of Glanworth Castle, Co. Cork: Excavations 1982-4’ (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Photographs attached CO027-042001-_01: aerial view of castle from SE. CO027-042001-_02: View of exterior of enclosure from SE. CO027-042001-_03: Exterior of castle from NW. CO027-042001-_04: View of hall-house from SE. CO027-042001-_05: View of the 15th-century garderobe tower, from SW. CO027-042001-_06: View of excavated buildings, from E. CO027-042001-_07: View of excavated gatehouse and garderobe, from SE. CO027-042001-_08: Plan of the castle showing the main building phases (Manning 2009, 13). CO027-042001-_09: Ground and 1s-t floor plans of the hall-keep (Manning 2009, 15). CO027-042001-_10: Plans showing the development of the castle from phases 1 to 4 (Manning 2009, 137). CO027-042001-_11: Ground and 1st-floor plans of the W range of buildings (Manning 2009, 31). CO027-042001-_12: Sheela-na-gig (Manning 2009, 31). Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 Date of last revision: 29 June 2023

• CO027-042004 Sheela-na-gig
  Description

  Discovered during archaeological excavation (1982-84) at Glanworth Castle (14328) 'in one of the two vaulted ground floor chambers in the north side of the original rectangular gate tower' (Manning 1987, 278). Figure carved on one entire face of roughly trapezoidal stone (H 0.52m; Wth at base 0.35m; Wth at top 0.21m; D 0.44m). Figure depicted in a position of display with legs flexed and widely splayed and hands grasping vulva, left arm lying across torso while right arm passes beneath thigh; uncommon feature is anus which is shown distinctly at base of stone (ibid., 280). Figure has large head, hunched shoulders, breasts and ribs are clearly indicated. Probably originally prominently displayed on wall of castle, where it served 'an apotropaic function' (ibid., 281). Now in National Monuments and Historic Properties Service depot, Mallow (CO033-143----). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 15 December 2009

• CO027-200 Hut site
  Description

  Within the historic town (CO027-042005-) of Glanworth, to the SW of 'Rock Abbey' (CO027-040----). Excavation in advance of a housing development in Boherash townland in 2004 revealed the remains of a circular hut site (diam. 6m) which was defined by a slot trench (Wth max. 0.6m; D 0.15m) at the base of which thirteen post- and stake-holes were visible. The post- and stake-holes represented the structural uprights of the building. The slot trench was cut through along the E arc by a linear ditch-like feature (CO027-202----). The entrance was represented by a break (Wth c. 0.8m) in the S circuit of the hut site and a substantial post-hole at its E side may indicate a jamb post for a door. Clusters of internal stake-holes within the interior of the hut site may have been vestiges of internal fittings. A radiocarbon date of 1300-1365 cal. AD (605±35BP) was returned from charred wheat, barley and oat cereals recovered from one of the stake-holes driven into the slot trench. Another excavated hut site (CO027-201----), which probably dates to the medieval period, is c. 25m to the SE. (Cleary 2006a; Cleary 2007) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO027-201 Hut site
  Description

  Within the historic town (CO027-042----) of Glanworth, to the SW of 'Rock Abbey' (CO027-040----). Excavation in advance of a housing development in Boherash townland in 2004 revealed the remains of a possible circular hut site (diam. c. 6m) which was defined by five stake-holes that probably represented the W arc of a post-built structure. The E portion of the possible hut site extended beyond the limit of the excavation which was confined to the footprint of the proposed houses. Though a cluster of stake-holes recorded outside the perimeter along the NW arc may be unrelated to the structure, it is also possible that they represent some external contemporary feature. A late 13th-century pit and another undated pit were recorded within the possible hut site. Another excavated hut site (CO027-200----), dating to the medieval period, is c. 25m to the NW. According to the excavator (Cleary 2007, 92), given the medieval date for the other hut site (CO027-200----), it is possible that the late 13th-century pit (F133) and this possible hut site were contemporary. (Cleary 2006; Cleary 2007) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO027-202 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Within the historic town (CO027-042----) of Glanworth, to the SW of 'Rock Abbey' (CO027-040----). Excavation in advance of a housing development in Boherash townland in 2004 revealed the remains of a linear fosse. Two sections of the fosse were uncovered in Trenches 2 and 4 and both extended beyond the excavated area. The most southerly section of the linear fosse (L 12.5m; Wth 1.8m; max. D 1m), with a rounded base, was uncovered in Trench 4. A flint flake, animal bone, teeth, a copper object and pieces of charcoal were found in the fill of the fosse. Eight pits (CO027-210----), one which contained 13th/14th-century pottery, were cut into the fosse and post-dated its backfilling. The second section of the linear fosse (L 12.5m; D 0.92m) was in line with the first and was uncovered c. 35m to the N in Trench 2. Only the E side of this portion of the fosse, which extended the full length of Trench 2, was excavated. The fill consisted of charcoal-flecked silty clay. The fosse cut into the E side of an earlier hut site (CO027-200----). (Cleary 2006a) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO027-203 Kiln - corn-drying
  Description

  Within the historic town (CO027-042----) of Glanworth, to the SW of 'Rock Abbey' (CO027-040----). Excavation in advance of a housing development in Boherash townland in 2004 revealed the remains of a corn-drying kiln. The extant remains of this keyhole-shaped kiln (min. L c. 4m) comprised an arc of five large limestone blocks which survived as one course (H 0.17m) and was centrally placed in a vertical-sided flat-based pit (2.1m E-W; max. D 0.35m). According to the excavator (Cleary 2007, 94), the original height of the kiln bowl may have measured up to c. 0.8m and the original internal diameter of the bowl was estimated to have been c. 1.25m. Part of a stone platform survived on the NE side of the bowl. The extant pit (max. Wth 1.25m; max. D 0.3m) that originally housed the flue extended (L 2.38m) to the S and terminated at an area of burning, probably representing the stoke-hole (1m N-S; 0.6m E-W). According to Cleary (ibid., 95), the sides of the flue may have originally been lined and the flue may also have been covered by stone flags, though no vestiges of this lining or covering were evident. A charcoal-enriched fill within the bowl and flue produced large quantities of charred cereals of mainly oat and some wheat and barley. One sherd of locally made Cork-type pottery was recovered from this fill, providing a date of late 13th/early 14th century for the abandonment of the kiln. A second sherd of Cork-type pottery was recovered from the backfill layer over the hearth and flue areas. Two adjacent pits (see CO027-204----) may have been in contemporary use with the kiln and a series of pits which were dug into the S end of the kiln were found to have post-dated the kiln use. (Cleary 2006a; 2007) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO027-204 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Within the historic town (CO027-042----) of Glanworth, to the SW of 'Rock Abbey' (CO027-040----). Nine pits were completely excavated in advance of a housing development in Boherash townland in 2004. A further two pits were partially excavated. All of these pits were located in trench 1 and were dated to the medieval period on the basis of medieval pottery, mainly late 13th/14th-century Cork-type. The pits ranged in diameter from 0.35 to 2.9m and in depth from 0.23 to 1.95m and were mainly either circular or oval in shape. Two of the pits may have been in contemporary use with an adjacent corn-drying kiln (CO027-203----). One pit was situated to the S of the flue and stoke area of the kiln and a sherd of Cork-type pottery was recovered from its fill. Six inter-cutting pits had been dug into the S end of the flue and stoke area of the kiln and post-dated the kiln use. A flint flake, iron slag and fragments of burnt and unburnt bone were recovered from one of these pits while one human bone fragment and Cork-type pottery were amongst the inclusions in another. The fragment of human bone was identified as the central section of the shaft of an adult tibia. The two partially excavated pits were located to the SE of the flue and stoke area of the kiln. A sherd of Cork-type pottery, sherds of Redcliffe pottery and two sherds of Saintonge green-glazed pottery were among the inclusions recovered from these partially excavated pits. (Cleary 2006a; 2007, 96-9) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO027-205 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Within the historic town (CO027-042----) of Glanworth, to the SW of 'Rock Abbey' (CO027-040----). Four pits were excavated in advance of a housing development in Boherash townland in 2004. All four pits were situated in trench 1. Only one of the pits was completely excavated, the three other pits were only partially excavated. The pits ranged in diameter from 0.6 to 1.34m and in depth from 0.19 to 0.83m and varied in shape from circular to linear. Because of the lack of datable finds, these pits cannot be assigned to either the medieval or post-medieval phases at the site. (Cleary 2006a; 2007, 87-126) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO027-206 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Within the historic town (CO027-042----) of Glanworth, to the SW of 'Rock Abbey' (CO027-040----). Four undated pits were excavated in advance of a housing development in Boherash townland in 2004. All four pits were situated in trench 2, to the NW and S of an adjacent medieval hut site (CO027-200----). One pit was only partially excavated and this was associated with two stake-holes. The remaining three pits were uncovered in the NW corner of the trench and were fully excavated. These latter pits were found to be sequentially dug. (Cleary 2006a; 2007, 87-126) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO027-207 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Within the historic town (CO027-042----) of Glanworth, to the SW of 'Rock Abbey' (CO027-040----). Sixteen medieval pits were excavated in advance of a housing development in Boherash townland in 2004. One of the pits was only partially excavated. The pits, which were situated in trench 3, ranged in diameter from 0.4 to 3.6m and in depth from 0.2 to 2.05m and varied from circular to oval in plan. The pits have been assigned a medieval date based on the recovery of medieval pottery in the fills or on the stratigraphic sequence (Cleary 2007, 99). Cork-type pottery was recovered from the fills of twelve of the pits and two of these same pits also contained Redcliffe pottery while another contained Merida-type pottery. A broken quernstone lay at the base beneath the fill another of the pits, suggesting a medieval date. A late 13th-century pit (F133) and another undated pit (F143) were situated within a hut site (CO027-201----), located in the SE corner of this trench. (Cleary 2006a; 2007, 87-126) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO027-208 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Within the historic town (CO027-042----) of Glanworth, to the SW of 'Rock Abbey' (CO027-040----). Five undated pits were excavated in advance of a housing development in Boherash townland in 2004. Two of the pits were only partially excavated. The pits were situated in trench 3 and were mainly circular in plan. The pits ranged in diameter from 0.18 to 1.84m and in depth from 0.12 to 0.47m. None of the five pits produced dating evidence. (Cleary 2006a; 2007, 87-126) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO027-209 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Within the historic town (CO027-042----) of Glanworth, to the SW of 'Rock Abbey' (CO027-040----). Six medieval pits were excavated in advance of a housing development in Boherash townland in 2004. One of the pits was only partially excavated. All the pits were situated in trench 4. The pits ranged in diameter from 1.14 to 2.75m and in depth from 0.28 to 1.86m and varied in plan from irregular to subcircular. One of three pits situated on the E side of trench 4 produced a sherd of late 13th/14-century Cork-type pottery. Another of these pits contained a medieval mortar stone fragment and a quern stone. The third and later pit cut into the latter two pits. A D-shaped pit cut into and post-dated the infill of a linear ditch-like feature (CO027-202----). Finds in this pit included sherds of Cork-type pottery, Saintonge green-glazed pottery and Merida-type pottery. Two pits located on the SW side of the trench were probably medieval in date. A stake-hole driven into the S side of one of these pits included Cork-type pottery in the fill. (Cleary 2006a; 2007, 87-126) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO027-210 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Within the historic town (CO027-042----) of Glanworth, to the SW of 'Rock Abbey' (CO027-040----). Nine undated pits were excavated in advance of a housing development in Boherash townland in 2004. The pits were situated in trench 4 and were found to be irregular, linear or subcircular in plan. The pits ranged in diameter from 0.2 to 2.5m and in depth from 0.02 to 0.71m. Four of the pits were dug along the line of a linear ditch-like feature (CO027-202----). The remaining five pits were randomly dispersed in this trench. (Cleary 2006a; 2007, 87-126) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Architectural heritage

• Saint Patrick's National School, school, 1955–1960 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached school, dated 1958, having six-bay double-height centre block having longer U-plan single-storey flat-roof block attached to rear, rectangular-plan three-stage tower to west gable. Pitched tile roof with some cast-iron rainwater goods. Coursed rubble sandstone walls with timber cladding and painted roughcast render panels below windows. Square-headed window openings having quadruple six-pane timber windows to front elevation, with some aluminium replacements, single-pane timber windows to clerestorey at rear of main block and to tower, and recent timber casement windows to flat-roof block, all having painted render sills. Square-headed door openings to east and west of flat-roof block, having double-leaf glazed timber doors with flanking sidelights, set under concrete canopies supported on metal posts and having flagstone steps. Painted timber battened door to tower, with cast-iron gate and painted rendered boundary wall. Outbuildings to east and west of main building, comprising L-shaped open-sided shelters with timber cladding and single-bay flat roofed outbuildings. Painted roughcast rendered walls to site with painted render copings and pair of double-leaf cast-iron entrance gates.

• Glanworth Church, church/chapel, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built c. 1810, with three-stage belfry tower to west end, three-bay nave and projecting porch to north elevation of nave. Now ruinous. Castellated tower with pinnacles. Roughcast rendered walls with string courses to tower, and circular recessed panel to north elevation of tower. Remains of pointed arch window openings to nave, with pointed arch window openings to tower. Remains of pointed arch door opening to tower and to projecting porch, accessed by steps. Graveyard to site, with grave markers dating from eighteenth century. Ruined fifteenth-century Dominican friary and holy well to site. Site enclosed by coursed random rubble walls with wrought-iron gates flanked by ashlar limestone piers.

• House, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay single-storey house, built c. 1840, north-most bay being addition. Pitched slate and artificial slate roof with painted brick chimneystacks, painted stone ridge tiles, painted render coping to gable ends and uPVC rainwater goods. Dry dash rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and painted limestone sills. Square-headed door opening having half-glazed timber panelled door with painted moulded render surround. Decorative wrought-iron railings to site.

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Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Boherash.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Boherash with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Boherash · Bóthar an Ráis

Area

1,044,210 m² (104.42 ha, 258.03 acres)

Civil parish

Glanworth, and its townlands

Barony

Fermoy

Electoral division

Glanworth West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glanworth West electoral division: 1,156 people in 415 households; 76% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballylegan, Ballynamona, Clontinty, Curraghoo More, Glanworth, Laght, Rathdaggan

Placenames

Boherash on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.