What is recorded here

Half buried on the south slope of Thur Mountain, the sweat house keeps its northern chamber intact while the rest has surrendered to earth and time. A person may have sat inside that small cavity, breathing heat into stone until the air itself felt alive. The abandoned farmhouse nearby suggests someone still lived close enough to remember the chamber, tend its fire or simply pass it without explanation. What is missing has not disappeared; it has become the shape of the story told by what remains.

Marked only on the 1910 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, it is situated on the W side of a N-S stream towards the bottom of the S-facing slope of Thur Mountain and it is c. 30m ENE of an abandoned farmhouse. Only the N half of the chamber (int. diam. 0.9m; visible H 0.6m) and mound (dims 4m E-W; 2m N-S; H 0.3m at N to 1.1m at E) survives. 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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