Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sheela-na-gig
Ardfert, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardfert
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.33016, -9.77419
- SMR number
- KE020-047001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (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
National Monument No. 358. Notes from a letter written dated 03/01/1980 to the National Museum of Ireland in which it was claimed of a 'discovery made at Ardfert priory while [conservation] works were in progress of a sheela-na-gig carved in limestone 2 feet [0.6m] square. He claims that the workmen [OPW] unseated it fairly high up in the western wall of the tower' (SMR File). No trace of this carving has been identified on the tower of the Franciscan Friary (KE020-047----).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 5 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Franciscan friarsunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.