What is recorded here

Sweat Ho is a small stone chamber on a hillside in County Leitrim, built with a corbelled roof and a narrow lintelled entrance. It sits near the Miners Way, where heat and breath may have moved through stone long before roads or maps marked the place. The chamber is little more than two metres across, yet tall enough for a person to stand inside, suggesting it was made for bodies rather than storage. In that small space, heat would have risen, skin would have tightened, and thoughts may have sharpenened under pressure.

Located towards the bottom of the N-facing slope of a broad hill and c. 10m S of an ENE-WSW road, which is part of the green road known as the Miners Way. It is marked only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map with a house c. 100m to the N. A D-shaped mound (dims 3m E-W; 2.5m N-S; H 0.8-2.2m) contains a chamber (int. dims 1.55m x 1.6m; H 1.9m) with a corbelled roof and a lintelled entrance (Wth 0.56m; H 0.56m) at N. See the attached view taken from the NW. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

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