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Sweathouse

Killooman, County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Sweathouse, Killooman, 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
Killooman
County
Leitrim
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
54.22163, -8.07682
SMR number
LE016-036----

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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 (5-10-2021) by Mr Aidan Harte, Project Co-ordinator, Leitrim Sweathouse Project. Indicated - though incorrectly named ‘Well’ - on the OS 25-inch map and indicated but not named on the later, Cassini edition of the OS 6-inch map. Another sweathouse (LE016-035----) stands c.650m to the ESE.
In rough pasture, built into a steep SE-facing slope just S of a small, SE-flowing stream, c. 44m NE of a recently abandoned farmhouse. A drystone, rectangular structure (L 1.28m; Wth 1.1; H 1.62m) with a corbelled roof and an entrance at SE (Wth 0.42m; H 0.62m).
See attached image: LE016-036----_1 View from south-east (Photo credit: D. McCarthy 5-1-2021)

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 4 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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