Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sheela-na-gig
Town Parks (kells Upper By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Town Parks (kells Upper By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72757, -6.87971
- SMR number
- ME017-044033-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Sheela-na-gig now lost that was described in 1857 by W. R. Wilde in the Royal Irish Academy Museum Catalogue as being in situ, ‘in the church (ME017-044031-) of Kells’ (Wilde 1857, 141; Guest 1936, 118; Freitag 2004, 144).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 22 May 2012
References
Wilde, W.R. 1857 Catalogue of the antiquities of stone, earthen, and vegetable materials in the museum of the Royal Irish Academy. Dublin. M.H. Gill. Dublin.
Freitag, B. 2004 Sheela-na-gigs: unravelling an enigma. London. Routledge.
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Sundialunder 1 mi
- Font (present location)under 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.