Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sweathouse
Keadew West, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Keadew West
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Sweat House (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 54.05072, -8.13823
- SMR number
- RO004-015----
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. Built into a field bank on the NE-facing slope of a drumlin above Keadew village and now conserved in the village park. Grass-covered mound (dims 4.7m NW-SE; 2.6m NE-SW; H 1.7m) containing a circular, drystone-built chamber (diam. 1.3m; H 1.5m) with vertical walls and a lintelled roof. The lintelled entrance (Wth 0.5-0.6m; H 0.7m) is at NE.
See the attached external view.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.