Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sweathouse
Lurgaboy, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lurgaboy
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.06589, -8.12255
- SMR number
- RO002-037----
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
Not marked on the OS 6-inch map, and built into a cleft between two large boulders on the E-facing slope of Kilronan Mountain, with a deserted house c. 50m to the SE. D-shaped stone-built chamber (int. dims. 1.3m x 1.35m; H 1.7m) with slightly inclined walls and a lintelled roof. The entrance (Wth 0.55-0.75m; H 0.85m) is at SSE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.