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Sweathouse

Laghty Barr, County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Sweathouse, Laghty Barr, 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
Laghty Barr
County
Leitrim
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Sweat Ho.
Coordinates
54.32007, -7.99241
SMR number
LE009-010----

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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

At an abandoned farmstead on a slight W-facing slope in forestry. Recorded by the Leitrim Sweathouse Project as built into an E-W field boundary. The boundary (Wth 1.2m) broadens (Wth 3.95m) at the location of the sweathouse which survives as a collapsed, drystone, circular chamber (diams. 1.6m E-W; c.1.5m N-S) with an opening (Wth 1.5m) facing NNW. Stonework is visible internally (int. H 0.6m at E; wall T c.0.9m). The site is obscured by trees growing within and on the walls and the whole structure is covered by a fallen tree which lies across it.

See attachment: LE009-010----_1 Sketch plan of sweathouse. A Harte, 29-8-2022.

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.

Revised by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of revision: 21 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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