Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sheela-na-gig (present location)
Cork City, County Cork, Ireland
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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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
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
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
- Ogham stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gig (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.