What is recorded here

Horizontal sheela-na-gig carved onto the external face of a quoin high up on the southeast angle of a Tullovin tower house. Freitag noted her left arm raised to a head-dress, long torso with small breasts, ribs and navel, and a contorted right arm passing under a widely splayed thigh. She hangs above the valley like a warning or a laugh, exposing what the tower tried to keep private.

Horizontal sheela-na-gig carved onto the external face of a quoin high up on SE angle of tower house (LI031-048----) (Guest 1936, 112; McMahon and Roberts 2001, 153-4). Described by Freitag as a sheela-na-gig ‘carved in high relief on corner stone. Left arm raised to head, depicted with some kind of head-dress and arresting facial features. Long torso with small breasts, ribs and navel; very long, contorted right arm passes under thigh with at least two fingers touching slit-vulva. Legs widely splayed; big toes turned outwards’ (Freitag 2004, 144). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 28 May 2012.

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.