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
- 53.54463, -10.26090
- SMR number
- GA021-026088-
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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 small almost square leacht (1.14m x 1.06m; H 0.55m) is built against a possible mural chamber in the wall of the ecclesiastical enclosure (GA021-026022-) on High Island. It is built of small horizontal stones and some white quartz stones lie on its surface (White Marshall and Rourke 2000, 47, 49-50). (Scally 2014, 41, Fig. 4.2)
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.
White Marshall, J. and Rourke, G.D. 2000 High Island: an Irish monastery in the Atlantic. Dublin. Town House and Country House.
Nearby in the register
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 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.