Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
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
- GA021-026075-
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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
In 1984 this broken cross-base was noted inside the church (GA021-026014-) on High Island, to the N of the doorway (SMR file). By the 1990s it had been placed on the altar against the E wall (White Marshall and Rourke 2000, 83-4). Described by Fisher (2014, 214, no. 58, Fig. 7.10) as an undecorated roughly quadrangular slab (L 0.49m; Wth 0.38m; T 0.07m) of garnet mica-schist. The socket was incomplete as a result of the break in the slab. This may be the base of a cross (see GA021-026079-), which is now missing, based on a drawing by Wakeman in 1839 (Wakeman 1839a). The cross-base is now in the care of the OPW (Athenry depot, Co. Galway, see GA084-151027-).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 20 November 2015
References
White Marshall, J. and Rourke, G.D. 2000 High Island: an Irish monastery in the Atlantic. Dublin. Town House and Country House.
Wakeman W.F. 1839a Royal Irish Academy, MS 12 T 9 (43-5)
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.
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.