Sweathouse in Tawnaleck — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Sixty metres south of the sweat house, a collapsed stone ring lies hidden in a Dartry fold, its shallow chamber waiting for breath that stopped coming centuries ago. The lintel still marks the entrance, proving people built a door into the hill rather than leaving a hole for chance. There are no houses nearby to explain the building, so the gap between the two structures becomes a staircase of memory, inviting you to imagine the heat, the water and the transformation that once happened there.

At the bottom of a NW-facing slope and c. 40m S of a stream, in a slight fold on the E side of the Dartry Mountains with no houses in the vicinity. Circular cairn (diam. 3.5m ENE-WSW; 3.3m NNW-SSE; H 0.3-0.4m) with a collapsed centre (int. diam. 2.5m ENE-WSW; 2.2m NNW-SSE; D 0.4m-0.7m). The lintel from the entrance (Wth 0.4m) is visible at NNW. Sweat house (LE005-021----) is c. 60m to the N. 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

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