Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.
Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.
Add your photo and local directionsShare what you foundWhat is recorded here
The sheela-na-gig is carved onto a quoin stone on the SE angle of Clenagh tower house (CL051-052001-). It is described by Freitag (2004, 108) as a figure consisting of a ‘wide groove-like depression outlines the earless head; the facial features are barely discernible. It has no neck, and the breasts are only hinted at. The arms are kept close to the trunk and joined around an oval depression, indicating the pudenda and with signs of rubbing. It is in a squatting position with thin, spindly legs widely splayed and set at right angles, bent at knees, feet pointing outwards’. (Andersen 1976; 1977, 147, No. 67)
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien/Michael Moore
Date of upload: 6 June, 2012
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.