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Sheela-na-gig in Cashel, County Tipperary (TS061-025012-)

Sheela-na-gig
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TS061-025012-
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Currently in the basement corridor of the Cashel Palace Hotel which is on the NW side of Main Street, Cashel. This building was constructed in 1732 as a residential palace for Archbishop Timothy Godwin. The crudely executed female exhibitionist figure has a large round head with big protruding ears, a pronounced body…

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Currently in the basement corridor of the Cashel Palace Hotel which is on the NW side of Main Street, Cashel. This building was constructed in 1732 as a residential palace for Archbishop Timothy Godwin. The crudely executed female exhibitionist figure has a large round head with big protruding ears, a pronounced body with suggestions of a rib-cage, rudimentary legs and long arms with hands in front touching the vulva. The facial features are unclear but seem to include a broad proboscis-like nose. The figure is very lightly incised on a block of limestone (dims. 0.6m x 0.35m) which had been re-used as a quoin stone in the NE corner of the boiler house of the hotel which was constructed as Cashel Diocesan Library c. 1733. The face of the stone is dressed with diagonal tooling. The original location of the sheela-na-gig is unknown.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record TS061-025012

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