Sweat House, sweathouse in County Cavan (CV005-025----)

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What is recorded here

Marked on all OS eds. Situated adjacent to a stream. Small oval drystone-built structure (H 1.6m; int. dims. 2.4m NW-SE; 1.5m NE-SW) of beehive-type construction, roofed internally by a flat slab. Partly built into a hillside at SE. Lintelled entrance at NE (H 0.7m; Wth 0.5m). Richardson (1939, 34) recorded 'a flue on each side of it'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CV005-025

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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Michael Murtagh, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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