Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sweathouse
Derreenavoggy, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derreenavoggy
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Sweat Ho. (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 54.07758, -8.11789
- SMR number
- RO002-023----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and situated towards the bottom of the E-facing slope of Kilronan Mountain where it is situated in an abandoned quarry, with deserted farmsteads c. 40m to the N and c. 120m to the S. Circular overgrown stone-built chamber (int. diam. 1.6m; H 0.7-1m) with a collapsed roof which is built into an oval mound (dims. c. 1.5m NW-SE; c. 6m NE-SW; H 0.8-1.8m). The destroyed entrance is at S.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Boundary moundunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.