Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
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
- 53.54308, -10.25998
- SMR number
- GA021-026003-
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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
Close to cliff edge at SW end of island. Poorly preserved subrectangular enclosure (N-S 19.5m, E-W 22.4m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall. The foundations of a rectangular house (L 7m, Wth 4m ext.), with a doorway in N wall, occupy N portion of the interior. One of the field walls on the island (GA021-031----, b) terminates at this enclosure, and there is a small enclosed field (40m by 35m) 50m to SE. The early ecclesiastical remains (GA021-026022-) lie 200m to NNW. (Herity 1977, 60)
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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.