Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sweathouse
Eskerbaun, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eskerbaun
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.46351, -8.09539
- SMR number
- RO048-077----
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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 the NE-facing slope of a small ridge with houses at the roadside c. 100m to the E. It is not marked on any ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This is a partially collapsed beehive chamber (int. dims 1.8m WNW-ESE;1.3m NNE-SSW; surviving H 1.4m) with a destroyed entrance at ESE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.