What is recorded here
Located at the bottom of a gentle N-facing slope at the junction with flatter land. It is marked as a sweat house only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map with two houses 125m to the SE and c. 170m to the SSE. No feature is visible at ground level apart from a slight hollow (diam. c. 2m) in scrub. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003).
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE018-076
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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Photo credits
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Kenneth Allen, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Kenraiz, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
- Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Kenneth Allen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Pampuco, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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