Great year for Boherbue Comprehensive School
MEANWHILE it’s been a great year for Boherbue Comprehensive School students with numerous wins on the field of play as well as significant achievements in academics. Transition year students enjoyed great success with their Junk Kouture project while the Boherbue Angus group reached the National Finals in the Angus Beef competition. The Comprehensive School annual awards ceremony will take place on May 18th with musician and past pupil Liam O’ Connor doing the honours this year.
Members of the local 1916 Commemoration Committee were presented with a certificate of participation by officers from Cork County Council in recognition of the wonderful event they hosted last year as part of the 1916 celebrations.
Up to 1888, this region was part of the parish of Kilmeen. The original church was situated in Kilmeen graveyard, and a subsequent church was located close to where the parish hall is now.
The precise meaning of Kilmeen is unclear; While the first part of the word evidently means Cill or church, the origin of the second part of the word has been lost in the mists of time with some historians of the opinion that Kilmeen was an ancient settlement established by a saint named Maon.
History tells us that the parish was extremely large, ranging from Knockaclarig near Brosna to the west, and almost into Kanturk on the eastern side. Louis McCarthy, while researching material for his wonderful book ‘ The Church in the Parish of Kilmeen’, discovered records from as far back as 1500 which were made by a parish priest named John Iscolay.
Up to the mid seventies, many of the original thatched houses in the village were still intact, and photographs of these along with other scenes from historic Boherbue can be seen in Pierce Memorial Hall.