Country house in Bohereens, County Kerry

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What is recorded here

If the country house in Bohereens had a busy morning, someone was surely sent to the yard for a borrowed spade and came back with news of a family row. By dinner, the spade would be forgotten and everyone would have a different account of who started it.

A rectangular gable-ended residental house with a three-bay two-storey front elevation and a steeply-pitched slate roof. There is a one-storey addition on the N gable and a blocked-up archway in a wall running out from the S gable. This archway led to a yard at the rear which is enclosed by a range of two-storey outhouses. Although Bary (1994, 183) claims that 'it is probable that it dates to the sixteenth century', nothing in the present appearance of the house is earlier than the 18th century. (Castleisland District Archaeological Survey) Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KE048-107