Sweat House, sweathouse in County Leitrim (LE019-011----)

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What is recorded here

Situated on a steep SE-facing slope and on the NW bank of a NE-WW section of a stream. It is marked only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map with houses c. 100m to the W and SW. A collapsed rubble mound (diam. c. 3m; H c. 1m) shows traces of revetting for the chamber, but the entrance has collapsed.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE019-011

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