Sweathouse in Killerry, County Sligo

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What is recorded here

Included in the SMR (1989) as an unclocated monument with the classification 'Sweathouse'. Not listed in the RMP (1995). Not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. In a wood, at the base of a slope on the bank of a stream. An overgrown semicircular drystone structure built in a semicircular area dug out of the side of the hill. It has an oval interior (int. 2.2m x 1.2m; H 2.2m) with a hole through the top of the corbelled roof. The entrance (Wth 0.55m; H 0.7m) faces the stream. Two lines of low stones form a rough passage (L 1.8m; Wth 1m) between the stream and the entrance. This is probably post-1700 AD in date.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL021-107

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