
What is recorded here
Reported (28-9-2021) by Mr Aidan Harte, Project Co-ordinator, Leitrim Sweathouse Project. Depicted but not named on the Cassini edition of the O.S. 6-inch map where it is shown incorporated into a roughly N-S field boundary which has since been removed. In pasture, a partially collapsed, drystone-built, sub-circular chamber (diams. 1.42m by 1.39m; H 0.72m) the interior of which is filled with collapsed stone from the former roof. The monument is incorporated into a circular (diam. 3.1m) surrounding mound with a gap (Wth. 0.6m; H 0.3m) at NNW.
See attached images:
• LE002-049----_1 The sweathouse in a photo taken by W A Greene (1880-1940), now in the National Museums NI, Catogue No. HOYFM.WAG.1420. Note. Forge Town is the name of the cross roads c. 250m SW of this sweathouse at Cloone. (https://www.nmni.com/collections/history/photographs/green-collection)
• LE002-049----_2 View from north on 12/08/2021.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 3 November 2022
A local holy well or ritual site; wider significance not recorded.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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