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Sheela-na-gig (present location)

Cork City, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Sheela-na-gig (present location), Cork City, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cork City
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.89633, -8.49460
SMR number
CO074-168----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Rectangular slab, with figure picked out in raised relief on one side. The female figure displays a large head with eyes, nose and mouth. Chest flat; arms down by side of body, curve in towards slit of pudenda. Legs straight with feet turned inwards, touching at the toes. Slab now in Cork Public Museum. Possibly one of the two Ringaskiddy figures, stated to be in a private garden, but not located by Guest (1936, 115). Original location record CO087-112----.

Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC.

Date of upload: 20 January 2010

References

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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