Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sweathouse
Killerry, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killerry
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.21783, -8.35225
- SMR number
- SL021-107----
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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
Included in the SMR (1989) as an unclocated monument with the classification 'Sweathouse'. Not listed in the RMP (1995). Not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. In a wood, at the base of a slope on the bank of a stream. An overgrown semicircular drystone structure built in a semicircular area dug out of the side of the hill. It has an oval interior (int. 2.2m x 1.2m; H 2.2m) with a hole through the top of the corbelled roof. The entrance (Wth 0.55m; H 0.7m) faces the stream. Two lines of low stones form a rough passage (L 1.8m; Wth 1m) between the stream and the entrance. This is probably post-1700 AD in date.
Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC
Date of upload: 11 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.