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
- 53.54476, -10.26133
- SMR number
- GA021-026087-
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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 lies in the NW area of the monastic enclosure (GA021-026022-) on High Island, close to the NW entrance of the enclosure (GA021-026021-) around the church (GA021-026014-). One to two courses of the S and W sides survived (Scally 2014, 43). The leacht has been rebuilt.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 10 December 2015
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.