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Sweathouse

Annacarney, County Wicklow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Sweathouse, Annacarney, County Wicklow, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Annacarney
County
Wicklow
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.09272, -6.51973
SMR number
WI010-029----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on the flat bed of a stream gully and built into the steep valley side; the stream is 6m to the NE. An approximately square mound of earth and stone (dims. 4m x 4m; H 2m) covering a square chamber (dims. 1.52m x 1.52m) with a corbelled roof (H 1.73m) and a beaten earth floor. The top portion of the roof was damaged in 1967 (SMR file). The chamber is entered from the NNE side via a narrow passage (L 1.5m; Wth 0.44m; H 0.57-0.62m) with a slanting slab roof. (Price 1952, 180-81)

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Updated by: Paul Walsh

Revised date of upload: 2 March 2015

References

Price, L. 1952 Sweat house, Co. Wicklow. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 82, 180-81.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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