Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sweathouse
Gorteenaguinnell, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorteenaguinnell
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.33467, -8.29485
- SMR number
- LE007-090----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a S-facing slope with no houses in the immediate vicinity. This is a rectangular chamber (int. dims 1.25m E-W; 1.15m N-S), whose N side is formed by a low cliff but whose other sides are drystone-built, and it survives apart from the top of the roof (max. H 1.6m). The entrance at S is destroyed. The site of another sweathouse which was cut into the bedrock (int. diam. 2.5m; D 0.8m) is c. 15m to the SE.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.