Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sweathouse
Ballaghabawbeg, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballaghabawbeg
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74358, -8.28715
- SMR number
- RO028-241005-
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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
On level ground with rock outcrop at the bottom of N and E-facing slopes. An area of about 12 acres (c. 5 ha) contains field banks creating small plots (dims c. 30m x c. 20m), with quarries in unenclosed areas and a settlement cluster (RO028-241001-). Two house sites (RO028-241002-; RO028-241003-) are within a narrow field (dims c. 100m NE-SE; c. 15-20m NW-SE) extending to the SE, where a third house site (RO028-241004-) at its E end has a possible sweat-house visible as a mound (diam. 5m) with a hollow (diam. 2.6m) in the N wall.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.