Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Leacht
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
- 53.54481, -10.26107
- SMR number
- GA021-026084-
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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 leacht was uncovered during the course of excavations to the E of the entrance of ‘Cell B’, the clochan (GA021-026018-) to the E of the church (GA021-026014-) on High Island (Scally 2014). It was rectangular in plan (1.3m N-S; 0.9m E-W) and the walls survived from one to three courses in height. It was built over the N end of a rock-cut water trough and the side-wall of a drainage channel. A decorated cross-slab (GA021-026060-) that was found in rubble overlying it may have originally stood upright upon it (ibid., 111-12). A similar leacht (GA021-026085-) was uncovered c. 5m to the S.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 10 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.
Nearby in the register
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.