Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cursing stone
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
- 53.54471, -10.26116
- SMR number
- GA021-028----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 rounded granite boulder (0.4m N-S; 0.34m E-W; H 0.34m), a possible cursing stone, is to the S of the church (GA021-026014-) on High lsland and is located between the church enclosure (GA021-026021-) and the ecclesiastical enclosure (GA021-026022-). A cross-slab (GA021-026025-) lies c. 4m to the NW. Similar boulders were noted on Cruach na Cara/St MacDara’s Island (see GA021-020026-) and Mason Island (see GA076-011005-). (Bigger 1896, 109; Scally 2014, 43, 143, 158-9)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 5 January 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
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 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.