Sweathouse in Rathmoyle, County Roscommon

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What is recorded here

On a level landscape with no houses in the immediate vicinity. D-shaped sunken area (dims. 2.2m NE-SW; 1.7m NW-SE; max. D 0.5m) within a D-shaped grass-covered mound (dims. 7.4m NE-SW; 6.6m NW-SE; H 0.8m) with an entrance (Wth 1.3m) in the centre of the straight NW side.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO021-101

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