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Sheela-na-gig (present location)

County Dublin, Ireland

The record

County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
53.34018, -6.25499
SMR number
DU018-295----

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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The National Monuments Service's description

Now located in the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin (DU018-295----) . Figure was discovered in the gardens of Kilmokea House, Great Island, Campile, and presumed to have come from adjacent cemetery (WX039-018006-) (Freitag 2004, 135). Described by Freitag as a 'wedge-shaped schistose slab (dims. H 0.84m; top Wth. 0.3m; bottom Wth. 0.25m) with headstone inscription (reading: 'MB.D. 12 March 1705.a 72') on one side and Sheela on the other. Figure crude and somewhat atypical; defined by grooves roughly describing figure of woman. Head shaped like an American football, without facial features, connected to torso by most remarkable big hole (c.4 cm deep). The only other Sheela with hole in that position is Seir Kieran. Angular shoulders; two neatly carved holes in chest area indicating breasts; straight arms reaching down to genital area; legs apart and straight, no feet. Traces of a horizontal and two vertical lines between legs' (Freitag 2004, 135).

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.

Date of upload/revision: 05 June 2012.

References

Freitag, B. 2004 Sheela-na-gigs: unravelling an enigma. London. Routledge.

Nearby in the register

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

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