Sweat House, sweathouse in County Cavan (CV005-008----)

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What is recorded here

Not marked on OS 1836 or 1876 eds. Situated on a riverbank. Partly built into a hillside. Small beehive-shaped, circular (int. diam. 1.7m; H c. 2m), drystone-built structure roofed internally with small flat slabs. Low lintelled entrance at NE (H 0.65m; Wth 0.45m). Richardson (1939, 33-4) recorded 'two flues on the left of the door'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CV005-008

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