Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sweathouse
Carrickleagh, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrickleagh
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Sweat Ho.
- Coordinates
- 53.99392, -6.52228
- SMR number
- LH006-112----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated at the bottom of a knoll of rock outcrop where there was a small collection of houses as marked on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The remains of a collapsed sweathouse are set into the outcrop and composed of drystone walling with some small boulders. It was originally circular in plan (diam. c. 1.45m). The sweathouse has been removed since it was last inspected in 1966 but a photograph taken by Rev. Seamus Quinn, who was the parish priest of Knockbridge 1927-54, shows it complete with a rounded roof and a rectangular doorway. See the attached image, which is provided courtesy of Elizabeth McArdle. (SMR file)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 18 December 2015
References
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.