Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sweathouse
Doon (boyle By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doon (boyle By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Sweat Ho.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Sweat Ho. (disused)
- Coordinates
- 54.00516, -8.29197
- SMR number
- RO006-004----
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 on the 1837 and 1914 eds. of the OS 6-inch map with houses c. 100-140m to the N and NE. Built into a modern field-wall on the steep NE-facing slopes of Sheegorey Mountain with a silted-up drain to the E. Circular drystone-built chamber (int. diam. 1.3m; H 1.4m) with a corbelled roof entered by a low, lintelled passage (L 0.66m; Wth 0.43m; H 0.43m) at E and contained within a circular mound (diam. of base 3m; H 1-2m).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Battlefieldunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.