Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sheela-na-gig (present location)
Shoodaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shoodaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.34285, -8.68256
- SMR number
- GA071-079002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In the entrance porch of the Catholic church at Newcaslte. It consists of a damaged corbel on teh under-surface of which is a weathered carving of a Sheela-na-gig. The original location of this corbel is unknown though it is likely to have been of local provenance. In that regard, it has been suggested (Mannion 2008, 18) that it may have been associated with Templemoyle medieval church (GA084-127002-).
See attached screenshots of 3D model of Sheela-na-gig created by Digital Heritage Age. 3D model can be accessed on the Sketchfab website at: https://skfb.ly/6qPxA
J. Mannion, 'Tech Saxan. An Anglo-Saxon monastic settlement in early medieval east Galway.' Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 60(2008), 17-18, Pl. 3.
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 20 December 2011
Nearby in the register
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.