Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sweathouse
Knockmore, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockmore
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Sweat Ho. (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 54.05111, -8.25057
- SMR number
- SL041-045----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Listed in both the SMR (1989) and RMP (1995) and classified 'Sweathouse'. In pasture, on the SW-facing slope of Knockmore hill and built against the NW side of a wet rectangular hollow (11.5m NW-SE; 13m NE-SW). A sod-covered subcircular chamber (int. diam. c. 1.8m; int. H 1.8m) with random rubble walls (T 0.65m) covered by a partially collapsed corbelled roof. There is a lintelled entrance (Wth 0.45m; H 0.55m) at SW. This 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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.