Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sweathouse
Creevagh, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creevagh
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Sweat Ho. (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 54.06996, -8.22385
- SMR number
- SL041-026----
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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 the RMP (1995) and classified 'Sweathouse'. Near a stream, c. 500m N of Lough Skean and built against a rock outcrop. A rectangular chamber (Wth 0.5m; H 0.9m) with drystone walls and a corbelled roof covered by a rocky mound (1.5m x 2.9m; H 1.9m). There is a partially blocked lintelled doorway on the N side. The sweathouse is covered with overgrowth. It is likely to be post-1700 AD in date.
Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC
Date of upload: 10 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.