Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sweathouse
Drumshinnagh, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumshinnagh
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.11229, -8.33796
- SMR number
- SL034-252----
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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
Not listed in the SRM (1989) or the RMP (1995). Not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. According to local information, there was a circular mud-walled sweathouse (diam. c. 1.5m; H c. 1m) beside the river, with its door facing the river. It was used in the lifetime of the informant's father to cure aches and pains and those using it plunged into the river afterwards. There are now no visible remains of this sweathouse (pers. comm. John Conlon). 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
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.