Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
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
- 53.54366, -10.26075
- SMR number
- GA021-026004-
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
Between two small lakes to S of early ecclesiastical remains (GA021-026002-). A subcircular house site (E-W 4.2m, N-S 4m) defined by a grassed-over stone wall with traces of an entrance at E. Recorded by Herity (1977, 60, R) as a 'Penitential Station'.
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
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Industrial siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.