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Sweathouse

Cleighran More, County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Sweathouse, Cleighran More, 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
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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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

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

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

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