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Sweathouse

Cuiltia, County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Sweathouse, Cuiltia, 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
Cuiltia
County
Leitrim
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Sweat Ho.
Coordinates
54.16549, -8.02185
SMR number
LE018-060----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 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)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located at the bottom of a SE-facing slope with a small NE-SW stream c. 15m to the SE. It is marked and described on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map with a house c. 120m to the NE, but it is also indicated on the 1835 edition of the map. This is a subrectangular chamber (int. dims 1.65m x 1.67m) built of stone bonded with clay and incorporated into a NE-SW field bank. It has a lintelled roof (H 1.2m) and an entrance (Wth 0.55m; H 0.48m' L 0.6m) at SE with an outer funnel (L 0.65m) leading to the entrance. It survives in a clearing in a coniferous forest (Bing 2013).

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

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

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