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Sweathouse

Cloone (Rosclogher By.), County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Sweathouse, Cloone, County Leitrim, 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
Cloone (Rosclogher By.)
County
Leitrim
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
54.43562, -8.28090
SMR number
LE002-049----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Reported (28-9-2021) by Mr Aidan Harte, Project Co-ordinator, Leitrim Sweathouse Project. Depicted but not named on the Cassini edition of the O.S. 6-inch map where it is shown incorporated into a roughly N-S field boundary which has since been removed. In pasture, a partially collapsed, drystone-built, sub-circular chamber (diams. 1.42m by 1.39m; H 0.72m) the interior of which is filled with collapsed stone from the former roof. The monument is incorporated into a circular (diam. 3.1m) surrounding mound with a gap (Wth. 0.6m; H 0.3m) at NNW.

See attached images:

• LE002-049----_1 The sweathouse in a photo taken by W A Greene (1880-1940), now in the National Museums NI, Catogue No. HOYFM.WAG.1420. Note. Forge Town is the name of the cross roads c. 250m SW of this sweathouse at Cloone. (https://www.nmni.com/collections/history/photographs/green-collection)

• LE002-049----_2 View from north on 12/08/2021.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 3 November 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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