Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sweathouse
Newcastle (fore By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newcastle (fore By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.78855, -7.11411
- SMR number
- ME009-092002-
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
Just 2m N of the hut-site (ME009-092001-) at the centre of cashel (ME009-092----) is the probable base of a sweat-house evident as a circular area (int. diam. 1.2m) defined by an internal stone face and with an opening at E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 2 November 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.