Sweathouse in Ballyroe Upper, County Wexford

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What is recorded here

Located on a gentle E-facing slope, and on the N side of a NE-SW field bank. An entrance (Wth 0.6m; H 0.7m; L 0.5m) leads into a subcircular chamber (dims. 1.6m x 1.25m; H 1.05m) with a lintelled roof. The walls are drystone-built except around the entrance where it is mortared.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX029-035

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