Kittainan - Sheela3-na-Gig TS070-101003 -

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When we can’t access the original Sheela we make an attempt to show it in 3D using Displacement Maps. This sheela-na-gig was stolen in 1990 and its location is currently unknown. Another sheela-na-gig (TS070-101006-) is located on the fortified well house of Kiltinan castle (TS070-101004-) c. 300m to the E. The sheela-na-gig was in a horizontal position on the quoin stone. It is described by Freitag (2004, 136) as being ‘Carved on large, but very thin, rectangular limestone slab. Whole figure asymmetrical. Triangular, earless head with bulbous eyes, long nose and open mouth, set on thin, elongated neck. Odd droopy breasts, one with two nipples, dangling on big round belly. Left arm raised, bent at elbow, big hand with fingers spreading fanwise to touch left side of face. Right arm reaches down to genitals, with fingers reaching into open vulva, indicated by a deep straight groove. Legs wide apart, sharply bent at knee with feet turned outwards. Left leg raised higher’.