Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - medieval
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
- 53.54462, -10.26100
- SMR number
- GA021-026089-
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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 much-collapsed building is on the S side of the SE entrance of the monastic enclosure (GA021-026022-) on High Island. It is built against the enclosure wall and is roughly subrectangular in plan. It varies in width between 2.9m at its NW end and 3.8m at its SE end. The NE side is 3.7m long and the SW side is 4.3m. The doorway was in the SE wall. The width of the walls (c. 1-1.5m) suggests that roof was of timber rather than of corbelled stone. The size and location of the building, just outside the main entrance to the monastery, suggest that it was probably a guesthouse (White Marshall and Rourke 2000, 49-51).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 10 December 2015
References
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
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cursing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.