Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Clochan
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
- 53.54478, -10.26119
- SMR number
- GA021-026018-
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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
This is one of two possible clochans (see also GA021-026019-) noted on Herity’s (1977, 58, Fig. 2, G) plan of the monastic remains on High Island. The outlines of low roughly circular mounds of rubble against the internal wall-face of the ecclesiastical enclosure (GA021-026022-) suggested to Scally (2014, 43) that there were three clochans in this area (see also GA021-026091-) and visitors to the island also remembered at least three here.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 11 December 2015
References
Scally, G. 2014 High Island (Ardoileán), Co. Galway: excavation of an early medieval monastery. Archaeological Monograph Series 10. Dublin. The Stationery Office.
Herity, M. 1977 The High Island hermitage. Irish University Review, Spring, 52-68.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.