Overview
Grave Yard — Roughgrange is recorded as Sheela-na-gig in Meath. Rectangular graveyard with stone retaining wall which contains sheela-na-gig possibly incorporated into graveyard wall as recorded in the ITA survey of 1940. No trace of church inside graveyard.
Who made it and when
The saved account records: Rectangular graveyard with stone retaining wall which contains sheela-na-gig possibly incorporated into graveyard wall as recorded in the ITA survey of 1940.
How it was made and used
The saved account records: Davies in 1940 as, 'On graveyard wall is a primitive figure of shiela-na-gig type, modelled very square without shoulders, body short and stumpy
What was found
The saved account records: No trace of church inside graveyard.
What remains
The saved account records: No trace of sheela-na-gig which was recorded by O.
Why it mattered
Grave Yard — Roughgrange matters because the source ties sheela-na-gig to this exact landscape and preserves evidence that a bare map name loses. The saved account adds: face oval and worked in two flat panes, the upper consisting of nose and forehead.
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