Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Boherash, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boherash
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.19022, -8.35746
- SMR number
- CO027-200----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's 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
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.