What is recorded here
Situated on a steep S-facing slope in dense scrub, and with abandoned houses c. 150m to the SW and SE. Indicated as a sweat house only on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This is an oval overgrown cairn (dims 4m x 2m; H 1m) with a collapsed roof, but there is no visible entrance. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003).
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE007-095
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Kenneth Allen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- John M, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Richard Webb, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Richard Webb, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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