Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sweathouse
Mertonhall,cloghkeating, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mertonhall,cloghkeating
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.96359, -8.09927
- SMR number
- TN010-047002-
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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
A well-preserved single-storey vaulted circular building (int. diam. 2.2m; wall T 0.66m) with a doorway (H 1.2m) at NNE, built into the SW face of the enclosing fosse of a ringfort (TN010-047001) and probably contemporary with a conjoined enclosure. The bank of the latter runs off the top of the possible sweathouse. Possibly nineteenth century in date and may be associated with the nearby big house marked on the OS 6-inch map as Merton Hall. No evidence of burning or soot remains on the internal surface of the building, therefore it may have served some other function (Manning 1985b, 25).
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - hall-houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.