Discover Alone, back to main map

Sweat House

Sweathouse
Sweat House
Photo: Kenneth Allen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

What do you know about this place?

No account needed. Your comment will be public.

0 / 600

Small circular drystone-built structure (int. diam. 1.7m; H 1.4m) of beehive-type construction, roofed internally by a single slab. Low lintelled entrance at SW (H 0.45m; Wth 0.5m). Richardson (1939, 34) recorded a 'small chimney just above it'. (Weir 1989, 10) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CV004-011

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

What survives
Recorded monument

Places near here

St Felim’s Roman Catholic ChurchChurch/chapel · 495 ydIndicatedFairy fort / stone ringfort · 734 ydCavan Burren ParkForest · 1486 ydBurrenMountain / peak · 1552 ydDruidical AltarPortal tomb · 1606 ydBoulder GraveyardArchaeological place · 1.0 miShannon PotSpring · 1.6 miMarlbank ViewpointViewpoint · 2.2 miKillinagh ChurchChurch/chapel · 2.2 miInisheeIsland · 3.2 miCuilcagh Mountain ViewpointVisitor information · 3.4 miMarble ArchNatural arch · 3.4 mi

Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; National Library of Ireland on The Commons; photograph by Thomas H. Mason, Wikimedia Commons · No known copyright restrictions; N Chadwick, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; N Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Cilian Mac Liam, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Anne Burgess, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Gerard Lovett from ireland, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0; Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

More archaeology and monuments in County Cavan · All of County Cavan

Add to this placeAdd a picture Comment or add a tip Add a story

Explore 1,118,478 places