Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sweathouse
Tullynahaia, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullynahaia
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Sweat Ho.
- Coordinates
- 54.14706, -7.99074
- SMR number
- LE019-005----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
It is marked only on the Cassini edition of the OS 6-inch map, with a house shown c. 100m to the NW. Recorded by the Leitrim Sweathouse Project (G. Gibbons, 10-7-2022). On a gentle slope on the N-bank of a W-flowing stream. A collapsed sub-circular chamber (diams. c. 2.66m by c. 1.68m), with three courses of rubble stonework visible internally. Previously recorded as intact by G. Burns in 1992 (H 1.91m; L 1.78m; Wth 1.52m) with a well-defined entrance (H 0.75m: Wth 0.58m; D 0.70m).
See attachments:
• Photo of entrance in 1992. (G. Burns)
• Photo of monument in 2022. Note curving coursed stone work. (G. Gibbons)
Revised summary: Gearóid Conroy
Date of revision: 21 November 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.