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
- 53.54523, -10.26031
- SMR number
- GA021-026005-
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
Circa 100m NE of early ecclesiastical remains (GA021-026022-). A subcircular area (E-W 11m, N-S 10.3m) defined by a grassed-over stone wall with inner and outer revetting stones visible intermittently. Possible entrance at WNW. (Herity 1977, 58; O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 83-4)
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
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.