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
- 53.54308, -10.25998
- SMR number
- GA021-026009-
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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 on S side of the island and a short distance SE of the smaller lake. The poorly preserved foundations of a rectangular building (L 7m, Wth c. 4m) defined by a double-faced wall with an entrance on S side. This is roughly centrally placed with a faint rectangular enclosure (L 22.4m, Wth 19.5m) defined by traces of a grassed-over stone wall. Some 50m to E in a hollow along the cliff edge is a notable level patch of ground enclosed by an intermittent low bank of stone. (Macalister 1986a, 204; Herity 1977, 58)
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
- Enclosureunder 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.