Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sweathouse
Barnarobin, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barnarobin
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.36729, -8.48850
- SMR number
- SL005-177----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in a small hollow on a slight NW-facing slope, just below summit of hillock, at N base of Benbulbin Mountain in upland pasture. A hut site is located 130m to the SW. D-shaped structure (ext. dims. 2.1m NE-SW; 1.9m NW-SE; int. dims.1.3m NE-SW; 1.1m NW-SE) with walls (T 0.4m; ext. H 0.1-0.2m; int. H 0.1m-0.3m) of un-mortared rubble sandstone with the straight side (L 2.1m) facing NW. The roof is absent and the floor is level and unlined. A break (Wth 0.3m) midway along the NW side marks the position of the original entrance.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.