Sweat House, sweathouse in County Leitrim (LE012-052----)

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What is recorded here

Indicated as a sweat house only on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map on the E bank of a S-N stream, with a house c. 100m to the SE. It is on the SE side of the Scardan river valley, with that stream c. 200m to the NW. The area is a forest and no features is visible at ground level.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE012-052

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