Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sweathouse
Annacarney, County Wicklow, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.