Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sheela-na-gig
Ballymacgibbon North, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymacgibbon North
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53700, -9.23001
- SMR number
- MA121-137002-
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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
Listed in the RMP (1997) as 'stone sculpture (original location)’, this record refers to a sheela-na-gig which was originally located in Killursagh church (MA121-137001-). In 1867 Wilde recorded it as a stone figure carved in relief, which was removed from Killursagh church and built into a coach house nearby (O Lochlainn 1968, 157). In 2012 new information came to light confirming that the carving consists of a sheela-na-gig, and that its present location (MA121-178----) is in the porch of the modern Roman Catholic church in Cross village.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 January 2015
References
Ó Lochlainn, C. (ed.) 1968 Wilde's Loch Corrib Its Shores and Islands. Dublin. Three Candles.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.