Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sheela-na-gig
Shantraud, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shantraud
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.80622, -8.44000
- SMR number
- CL045-033014-
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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 sheela-na-gig is set in the side-wall of St Flannan's Well (CL045-033013-). It is described by Freitag (2004, 134) as a figure ‘carved on a slab with the head cut off. The arms are splayed out with the hands joining over the pudenda. The legs are widely splayed, and the knees bent’. (Guest 1936, 115, No. 37; Andersen 1977, 149, No. 84)
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien/Michael Moore
Date of upload: 6 June, 2012
References
Freitag, B. 2004 Sheela-na-gigs: unravelling an enigma. London. Routledge.
Andersen, J. 1977 The Witch on the wall: medieval erotic sculpture in the British Isles. London. Allen and Unwin Ltd.
Guest, E.M. 1936 Irish sheela na gigs in 1935. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 66, 107-29.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Cross - High cross (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.