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 indictated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54534, -10.26066
- SMR number
- GA021-026010-
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
Close to cliff edge to N of the oratory (GA021-026014-). Described by Macalister (1896a, 204) as 'a two-chambered building: the southern chamber 19 feet by 12 feet (5.8m by 3.65m); the northern 21 feet by 6 feet (6.4m by 1.85m)'. All that remains today is the foundations of an apparently D-shaped structure (E-W 9m; N-S 8.5m) defined by double-faced wall (Wth 1m), from which faint traces of walls run S (GA021-031----) to the ecclesiastical enclosure (GA021-026022-). No trace of the other 'square building', previously noted by Kinahan to SW (ibid.), survives. (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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.