Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
High Island, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- High Island
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54745, -10.24795
- SMR number
- GA021-026002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
At extreme E end of the island. Possible remains of a defended headland: all that survives is a roughly rectangular area (30m by 20m) defined by the cliff edge on E and S, and by a shallow curving flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 6m) on W and N. No trace of a bank or an entrance survives (info. M. Casey). Not visited.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Mine - copperunder 1 mi
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.