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Sweathouse

Coollemoneen, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Sweathouse, Coollemoneen, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Coollemoneen
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Sweat Ho.
Coordinates
54.12095, -8.31248
SMR number
SL034-068----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Listed in both the SMR (1989) and RMP (1995) and classified as 'Sweathouse' and 'Sweathouse Site' respectively. In poorly drained pasture, on the E-facing slope of a low rise between two farmhouses. The remains comprise the stone foundations of a circular sweathouse (int. dims. 1.6m N-S; 2m E-W; max. D 0.8m) built into the slope of a hill. According to local information, it was dismantled 'many years ago' and the stones used to make a road. It had not been used in the informant's life time but he recalled old men in his youth talking about lighting fires to heat the stones for the sweathouse. This is probably post-1700 AD in date.

Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC

Date of upload: 04 January 2012

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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