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Sweathouse

Murhaun, County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Sweathouse, Murhaun, 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
Murhaun
County
Leitrim
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Sweat House (in Ruins)
Coordinates
54.06633, -8.03060
SMR number
LE023-777----

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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)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Reported (5-10-2021) by Mr Aidan Harte, Project Co-ordinator, Leitrim Sweathouse Project, but not yet inspected. Depicted as a roughly square (L c. 3m; Wth c. 3m) and apparently roofless structure and named ‘Sweat House (in Ruins)’ on the OS 25-inch map (1907), where it is shown c. 15m S of a NW-flowing stream, with the nearest dwelling shown c. 140m to the ENE. Now at the NE edge of a forestry plantation.

Recorded in the Schools Manuscripts Collection (Volume 0208, p. 247):
‘There was one [sweathouse] … in the townland of Murhaun. Joseph Rourke of Shaskinacurry saw it in use. The last use made was about fifty four years ago he says… It was a round house and the foundation stones are there yet. The entrance hole or door was hardly two feet high … There were three stone seats inside.’

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: November 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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