Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sheela-na-gig
Kilmainhamwood, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmainhamwood
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.85147, -6.81058
- SMR number
- ME005-028003-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (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
From Guest (1936, 118): 'Sheela-na-gig buried in the ground and recorded by Guest in 1935 as in ‘Kilmainham, on the borders of Louth-Meath : buried in a churchyard (ME005-028001-) near the railway station, at least forty years ago. (From private information)’
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 29 May 2012
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
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.