Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sweathouse
Drumshinnagh, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumshinnagh
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Sweat Ho. (1838).
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.10781, -8.34399
- SMR number
- SL034-056----
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
Listed in both the SMR (1989) and the RMP (1995) and classified 'Sweathouse' and 'Sweathouse Site' repectively. On the N bank of a stream. There are no visible remains of this sweathouse. According to local information, the field is known as the 'sweat house field'. This is probably post-1700 AD in date.
Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC
Date of upload: 04 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.