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Sweat House, sweathouse in County Roscommon (RO002-006----)

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Official monument number
RO002-006----
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Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and built into the E-facing slope of a ravine above a SW-NE stream with a deserted house c. 100m to the E across the stream. The foundations of a square, stone-built chamber (int. dims 1.55m x 1.5m; H 0.1-0.6m) survive with the destroyed entrance at SE.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO002-006

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  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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