Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sweathouse
Benagh, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Benagh
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.00955, -6.23214
- SMR number
- LH008-048002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Constructed of local stone with a grass mound on top. Sub-rectangular in plan with two large boulders at either side of the entrance and two lintels above it. Evidence for burning noted. (SMR file)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 6 March 2012
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - inlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.