Sweat House, sweathouse in County Cavan (CV006-014----)

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What is recorded here

Marked on all OS eds. An earlier description (1939, 34-5) noted that it had an internal diameter of c. 1.7m, a max height of c. 1.5m and that the walls were c. 0.8m thick. A large slab which formed the roof had been removed some thirty years previously. Not visited.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CV006-014

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