Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sweathouse
Doolargy Glebe, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doolargy Glebe
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Sweat Ho.
- Coordinates
- 54.18324, -8.06116
- SMR number
- LE018-066----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located towards the top of an E-facing slope, and c. 40m ESE of an abandoned farmhouse in a coniferous forest. It is marked only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map.
Recorded by the Leitrim Sweathouse Project (pers. comm. A. Harte) as a small, ruined structure (L 1.57m; Wth 1.32m) with a low, narrow entrance (H 0.5; Wth 0.46; D 0.5m).
Compiled by: Michael Moore and Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 16 November 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.