Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sweathouse
Cornageeha (drumahaire By.), County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cornageeha (drumahaire By.)
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.18562, -8.02079
- SMR number
- LE018-082----
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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
Reported (4-10-2021) by Mr Aidan Harte, Project Co-ordinator, Leitrim Sweathouse Project. Not recorded on Ordnance Survey mapping. On a gentle, wooded W-facing slope, c. 15m NW of some derelict dwellings. Another sweathouse (LE018-070----) stands c. 560m to the E.
A drystone built, D-shaped structure (int. dims. L 1.83m; Wth 1.47m; int. H 1.63m; ext. H 1.8m) is entered at NW via a small, slightly funnel-shaped opening (ext. dims. Wth 0.47m; H 0.53m; int. dims. Wth 0.47m; H 0.65m; L 0.52m). The roof is A-shaped, formed by a single stone lintel, acting as a beam, which rests on a pillar at W, and supports inclined lintels on either side: see attached photo.
While currently in very good condition, a small tree is beginning to damage the roof.
See attached images: LE018-082----_1 View from west taken on 11-8-2021 and LE018-082----_2 View of A-roof with central slab lintel (arrowed) supporting pitched roof slabs (Photo credit: D. McCarthy, 28-7-2021).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 4 November 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.