Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sweathouse
Magheralackagh, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Magheralackagh
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Sweat Ho. (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 54.08643, -8.27047
- SMR number
- SL035-050----
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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 RMP (1995) and classified 'Sweathouse'. In pasture, on a SE-facing slope. At the location indicated is a conical mound (diam. 3.6m; H 1.65m) of earth and stone, adjacent to a field boundary. This is probably post-1700 AD in date.
Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC
Date of upload: 05 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.