Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sweathouse
Cleighran More, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cleighran More
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Sweat House
- Coordinates
- 54.12980, -8.01288
- SMR number
- LE020-005----
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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
Situated on a W-facing slope on the E side of Lough Allen and on the S bank of an E-W stream where it curves N. It is marked only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map with houses c. 70m to the NE and c. 130m to the E. It was conserved in the 1980s and is easily accessible from a path c. 15m to the S. This is a D-shaped drystone structure (int. dims 1.7m N-S; 1.3m E-W; H 1.25m) with a lintelled roof and an opening (Wth 0.44m; H 0.7m; D 0.4m) at W. (Weir 1980, 172)
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
References
Weir, A. 1980 Early Ireland: a field guide. Belfast. Blackstaff Press.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.