Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sweathouse
Ballyroe Upper, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyroe Upper
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.41143, -6.90652
- SMR number
- WX029-035----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Located on a gentle E-facing slope, and on the N side of a NE-SW field bank. An entrance (Wth 0.6m; H 0.7m; L 0.5m) leads into a subcircular chamber (dims. 1.6m x 1.25m; H 1.05m) with a lintelled roof. The walls are drystone-built except around the entrance where it is mortared.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 1 August, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassified1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.