Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sweathouse
Creevagh (ibrickan By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creevagh (ibrickan By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.79442, -9.31940
- SMR number
- CL039-037001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a knoll on the N shore of Doo Lough. The remains of a sweathouse with its top removed. A mound (ext. diam. 5.2m N-S) remains with a flush stone face that slopes in as it rises. There is a hollow in the centre of the mound (diam. 2.6m N-S; D 1m) and the inner edge is also stone lined. The entrance (at WNW) is broken down. This sweathouse was surveyed as part of the Heritage Council funded Munster Sweathouse Project in 2009. The sweathouse was found to be circular in plan (int. dims. 1.96m N-S; 2.2m E-W) with drystone walls of grey rubble sandstone (surviving ext. H 0.8m at E; 0.48m at N; int. H av. 1.5m increasing to 1.8m at E). It was built on rock outcrop and possibly had a corbelled roof. A gap at WNW (Wth 0.55m) is likely to be the original entrance. The floor of the sweathouse is lower than the external ground level. (Harte 2009)
Revised by: Mary Tunney
Date of revision: 3 May 2017
References
Harte, A. 2009 The Munster Sweathouse Project. Funded by the Heritage Council Archaeological Research Grant Scheme 2009.
Nearby in the register
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.