Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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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
- SMR number
- GA021-026074-
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The National Monuments Service's description
Described by Fisher (2014, 222, no. 56, Fig. 7.9) as an undecorated roughly quadrangular cross-base (L 0.79m; Wth 0.78m; T 0.1m) of garnet mica-schist. It is beside the penitential station (GA021-026017-) on the S side of the lower lake on High Island, near the SE landing. It is pierced with a roughly rectangular socket that is almost centrally placed. An incomplete T-shaped slab (H 0.24m; 0.54m; T 0.08m) is now set in the socket (ibid. no. 57). Various suggestions have been put forward regarding the latter slab: it may be the tenon/stem of a cross associated with the cross-base or it may be the head and incomplete arms of an unrelated cruciform cross-slab. (White Marshall and Rourke 2000, 157-8, no. 33)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 20 November 2015
References
Fisher, I. (revised by Scally, G. and Maddern, C.) 2014 Catalogue of cross-slabs. In G. Scally, High Island (Ardoileán), Co. Galway: Excavation of an early medieval monastery. Archaeological Monograph Series 10. Dublin. The Stationery Office.
White Marshall, J. and Rourke, G.D. 2000 High Island: an Irish monastery in the Atlantic. Dublin. Town House and Country House.