Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sweathouse
Cavan (Mohill By.), County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cavan (Mohill By.)
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.93329, -7.91644
- SMR number
- LE032-112----
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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)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (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. In pasture, on the gentle SW facing slope of a low, N-S ridge, c. 75m E of the Eslin River. The landowner recalled that his father (who came here in 1902) did not know what the structure was but thought it was probably a lime-kiln and later filled it in for safety reasons. He also remembers harriers dug it to get a fox out in the late 1950s.
A Schools Manuscripts Collection reference (Volume 0215, Page 244) confirms a sweathouse in the townland but a precise location was not recorded:
‘In the town-land of Cavan there… Near the edge of this mound is a building of the finest type of its size and it is thought to be a sweat house.’
All that is visible is a poorly defined, grass covered hollow (Dims. 2.8m N-S; 2m E-W) with some earthfast stone evident on the downslope side.
See attached image: LE032-112----_1 View of possible stone facing from SW on 10-8-2021
Compiled by: Gearoid Conroy
Date of upload: 3 November 2022
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Stoup (present location)under 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.