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Sweathouse

Ballydonnellan, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Sweathouse, Ballydonnellan, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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
GA056-016----_01.jpg
GA056-016----_02.jpg
GA056-016----_03.jpg

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 27 June 2023

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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