Sweat House, sweathouse in County Leitrim (LE015-170----)

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What is recorded here

Located on the E bank of a S-N stream, in a bend of the stream. It is indicated as a sweat house on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map with no houses in the immediate vicinity. No feature is visible at ground level.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE015-170

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