Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sweathouse
Ballydonnellan, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballydonnellan
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.43046, -9.03543
- SMR number
- GA056-016----
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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
This sweathouse (max. Wth 8.5m; H 1.5m) is built into a small ridge in an area of rough overgrown ground and woodland. The roughly wedge-shaped drystone chamber (Wth 2.47m tapering to 0.82m at roof level; H 1.7-1.9m) is accessed by a narrow lintelled opening (Wth 0.5m; H 0.89m) at WSW. The walls of the chamber are fairly straight sided and the roof is corbelled. Externally the chamber is enclosed with grass-covered earth.
The following images have been uploaded courtesy of Shirley Hope-Sweeny
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Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 27 June 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.