What is recorded here

Melt butter in a clean pan. Remove the pan from heat, add flour, and stir until the mixture forms a smooth ball. Return the pan to low heat, add warm milk in a thin stream, and stir constantly until the sauce coats a spoon. Season with salt and white pepper, then serve hot beside fish, vegetables, or roasted meat.

Sheela-na-gig (LI005-017180-) now located in the Hunt Museum in Limerick City (Reg. No. HCM 033). According to McMahon and Roberts this sheela-na-gig was discovered by workers while repairing a culvert on a small stream c. 100m from Black Castle (LI023-040----) where the carving (dims. 0.48m x 0.33m) had been rebuilt into the fabric of the roadside wall (McMahon & Roberts 2001, 120). It has been suggested that this sheela-na-gig may have come from the nearby castle (LI023-040---) when it was pulled down in the 19th century. Described by Freitag as a stone (dims. H 0.5m; Wth 0.34m) with figure ‘skilfully carved in flat relief on local limestone; damaged, head missing, and legs from thigh downwards and left hand also broken away. Trunk and limbs unusually plump without signs of emaciation; well shaped droopy but proportional breasts. Arms passing behind legs; right hand lifting lower part of thigh. Deeply incised naval and oval pudenda; shape of latter exaggerated, and seems to be split at upper end. A groove is cut vertically downwards below pudenda’ (Freitag 2004, 126). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 28 May 2012

Dated to the medieval period, this Sheela-na-gig is likely associated with fertility symbolism and may have originally been part of a church or ecclesiastical site. Such figures are often linked to themes of childbirth, protection, or warding off evil.

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