Sweat House, sweathouse in County Leitrim (LE015-163----)

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What is recorded here

Located towards the bottom of a W-facing slope in Killarga village. Marked on the 1835 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. This is a circular stone-built chamber (int. diam. 1.9m) with a destroyed entrance at NE. It is built on a plinth (Wth 0.4-0.9m; H 0.4-1.2m) which is visible SE-NW, but there is no mound and the top of the chamber is destroyed.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE015-163

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