What is recorded here

Built into the inside wall of a farm building immediately E of Behy Castle (SL034-001001-). A rectangular punch-dressed limestone block (0.85m x 0.45m) which was probably originally a quoin stone in the adjacent castle. Carved in low relief at one end of the stone is a full figure sheela-na-gig (L 0.35m), now painted pink, whilst at the other end is an 'X' picked out in three lines of pick marks. (O'Shaughnessy and Weaver 1992, 8; McMahon and Roberts 2001, 117-18) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

A local standing stone or piece of rock art; wider significance not recorded.

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