Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field boundary
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
- 53.54668, -10.25672
- SMR number
- GA021-031----
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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
Four stretches of old stone walls are visible on the island. At SW end, and directly associated with the E. Chr. ecclesiastical remains (GA021-026022-) are (a) a small triangular garden (40m by 25m). adjoining the monastic enclosure on the N (b) a stone wall running N to S from the SE corner of the larger of the two lakes on the island to a sea inlet (L c. 120m); (c) in a small gully about halfway along the island are intermittent traces of an old stone wall which runs across the island from NW shore to a deep sea inlet on SE side (L c. 215m) (the co-ordinates given above are for this wall); (d) at E end, running across the narrow neck of land above the landing place, is another wall (L 27m) built of large boulders (Wth 1.9m). (Herity 1977, 58-61)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.