Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sweathouse
Ballynacroghy Or Gallowstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacroghy Or Gallowstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Sweat Ho.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59305, -7.50181
- SMR number
- WM011-078----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Situated -n an area of grassland with possible ringfort annotated as 'Raheen' (WM011-079----) immediately to NE with Shanwallia House 80m to S. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and annotated as ‘Site of Sweat House’. Small building annotated as 'Site of Sweat Ho.' on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. No surface remains visible of Sweat House which had been levelled before 1837.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - stepped barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.