Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB12/01/034

Address :
Sweat House Corraleek Rosslea Co. Fermanagh

Townland:
Corraleek

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Sweat House

Former Use
Sweat House

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
Partially

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OS Map No:
232

IG Ref:
H5250 3740

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Built into the east side of a field bank (only vestiges of which now survive) immediately north of an agricultural outbuilding. Of random-rubble construction and beehive profile. Measures c.2.4m in basal diameter and stands to its full height of c.2.4m. There is a creep hole (with flat lintel head) on its east side, measuring 45cm wide by 60cm high. Although the bank has been partially eroded on its west face, the actual structure survives intact. Very overgrown.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Too small a structure to be shown on the OS 6” and 25” maps. Date is unknown.

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

An intact example of a sweat house, one of several in this area (cf HB12/01/033 and /046). .

General Comments

Date of Survey

20 September 2000