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Sweat House

Sweathouse

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Situated in a fold on a gentle S-facing slope with a NE-SW stream c. 100m to the SE. It is built into the W side of a drain, c. 50-100m from the sites of five houses. The roof is gone and the overgrown walls (int. diam. c. 1.2m; H c. 1m) are flush with the surrounding land. The entrance is not visible. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE019-014

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Photo credits
  • Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Pampuco, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Kenneth Allen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5

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