
What is recorded here
Located towards the bottom of a W-facing slope. It is marked as a sweathouse only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map with three houses c. 50m to SW, W and NW. No feature is visible at ground level.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Sweat Ho. is associated with the tradition of the sweathouse, a structure used in pre-modern times for ritual sweating, often linked to healing practices and purification. Such sites were sometimes connected to local saints or folk cures, though specific folklore or saintly associations for this location have not been recorded.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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