What is recorded here

Sweat Ho is a vanished sweathouse hidden beside a narrow stream in Glenfarne valley, marked only on an old map and absent from the ground today. The missing structure may have stood near the abandoned farmhouse, using river water and earth to build heat for bodies tired by work or hardship. Its disappearance does not erase the function, because the name still points to a place where people leaned on heat, moisture and patience when life felt cold.

Marked only on the 1907 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, it is situated on the W bank of a S-N stream and c. 20m SE of an abandoned farmhouse that is at the bottom of a N-facing slope in Glenfarne valley. No feature is visible at ground level. 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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