Sweat House, sweathouse in County Leitrim (LE012-045----)

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What is recorded here

Indicated as a sweat house only on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map with a small N-S stream c. 10m to the E and houses c. 140m and c. 200m to the N and NNE respectively. It is located towards the bottom of a steep S-facing slope of Thur Mountain and on the N side of Glenfarne valley. No feature is visible at ground level in rough pasture.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE012-045

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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Heritage Ireland / Office of Public Works (individual photographer not stated), Heritage Ireland
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Ellie Berry / Tough Soles; photograph maker not separately credited, Tough Soles
Gerard Lovett from ireland, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Dromahair Arts and Recreation Centre (publisher); individual photographer not stated, discoverdromahairpark.ie
Michael Murtagh, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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