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Sweathouse in Briscloonagh

Sweathouse

What is recorded here

Indicated but not described on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and with houses c. 150m and 200m to the NE only on the 1910 ed. where it is described as a 'Sweat Ho.'. It is located towards the bottom of a NW-facing slope on the S side of Glenfarne valley. This is a rebuilt sweathouse (int. diam. 1.35m; H 1.85m) with a paved floor and an entrance (Wth 0.55m; H 0.71m) at W, but it lacks a mound.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE012-043

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Photo credits
  • Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • John M, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Kenneth Allen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Richard Webb, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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