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LOCATIONS IN IRELAND



COUNTY CLARE
  1. Bunratty Castle - well-maintained in the Keep of the Castle.
  2. Clenagh Castle - on a quoin near ground level at the Castle.
  3. Killaloe - at the well next to St. Flannan's Church (headless).
  4. Clonlaragh - on a parapet of Old Canal Bridge, perhaps moved from Newtown Castle.
  5. Killinaboy - on church ruins, perhaps 11th-12th c.
  6. Rath - on ornamentation of lintel of Round Tower.
  7. Ballyportry Castle - now at the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.
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COUNTY KERRY
  1. Kilsarkan - above a window in an old parish church.
  2. Ratoo - a caste of original is at the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.
  3. Lixnaw - from Lixnaw Castle, now in National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.
COUNTY CORK
  1. Ballynacarriga - on the wall of the ruins of O'Hurley Castle.
  2. Ballyvourney - over window in St. Gobnat's Abbey.
  3. Castlemagner - on the wellhouse of Bridgit's Well, opposite the ruined castle.
  4. Castle Widenham - kept inside the private Castle Tower, seen by permission.
  5. Glanworth Castle - on private grounds.
  6. Aghadoe Castle, Killeagh - on remains of castle.
  7. Ringaskiddy - two figures in a private garden, gone missing. Also here: Barnahealy - at Castle Warren, gone missing.
  8. Tracton Abbey - in Fitzgerald's Museum, Cork.
  9. Kinsale - on a stone in St. Multose Church.
  10. Ballynamona Castle - near town of Mallow, destroyed in the 1820's.

COUNTY TIPERRARY
  1. Rochestown - at a ruined church, recorded 1840, gone missing.
  2. Ballynahinch - above a door in the wall of the peel tower, Ballynahinch Castle.
  3. Cashel - two figures, one in the church on the Rock of Cashel; another figure is in the Cathedral.
  4. Holycross Abbey - on wall, near entrance to the cloister.
  5. Moycarkey Castle- home of the well-known Sheela, "Catherine Owens," gone missing.
  6. Liathmore - horizontal stone in doorway of church ruins, situated on site of 7th century monastery.
  7. Kiltinan Church - stolen, 1990. Another at Kiltinan Castle is on private property on the wellhouse.
  8. Fethard - one Sheela is on the Old Town Wall overlooking the bridge. Another is at Fethard Abbey, on the foundation ruins of the c.1300 abbey.
  9. Clonmel - from a Dominican priory, now at the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.
  10. Burgesbeg - from a ruined church, now at the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.
  11. Ballyfinboy Castle - on a sunken panel on a quoin on the west wall.
  12. Newtown Lennan - from a medieval church, now in National Musuem. Dublin.

COUNTY LIMERICK
  1. Dunnaman Castle - high on the wall of the peel tower.
  2. Tullavin Castle - on high cornerstone of the peel tower.
  3. Caherelly Castle - headless, now in Hunt Museum, Limerick.
COUNTY WATERFORD
  1. Kilmacomma - recorded in 1937, found in sandpit, put on a barn gable, rumored to have brought "ill-fortune," is now missing.
COUNT KILKENNY
  1. Cooliagh More - in the National Museum, Dublin.
  2. Clomantagh - on a quoin of the Castle.
  3. Ballylarkin Church - now in National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.

COUNTY LAOIS
  1. Ballaghmore - on a cornerstone of the tower wall.
  2. Cullahill - high on the south wall of the big tower.
  3. Timahoe - possibly two figures on Timahoe Castle, missing in ruins.
  4. Portnahinch - missing from castle ruins.
  5. Tinnakill - from a ruined castle, now in a garden wall of house in Mountmellick.
  6. Rosenallis - from a graveyard, now in the National Musuem of Ireland, Dublin.
  7. Shane's Castle - missing, its presence once recorded in the 1840's.
COUNTY KILDARE
  1. Blackhall Castle - on the peel tower, standing alone on farm property where the castle once stood.
  2. Kildare - on crypt in Great Connel Abbey in Kildare Town.
  3. Carrick Castle - gone missing enroute to the Cambridge Museum.
 COUNTY OFFALY
  1. Seir Kieran - once at old church, now on display at the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.
  2. Birr - on display at National Musuem, Dublin.
  3. Garry - on wall of old castle, possibly private access.
  4. Cloghan Castle - missing, recorded in 1906.
  5. Clonmacnoise - one at the Nun's Chapel on archway; one in the storeroom of the Cathedral.
  6. Rahan - at Athlone Museum.
  7. Doon - on cornerstone to left of main entrance at Castle.
  8. Lemanaghan Castle - missing from 1870.
COUNTY WESTMEATH
  1. Moate - over rear gateway at Moate castle.
  2. Carne Castle - in National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.
  3. Taghmon - over a window in the north wall at the 15th century church.
  4. Athlone - in the Athlone Castle Museum, once in the convent.
  1. Chloran - found in 1859, now in the Witt Collection of the British Museum.
COUNTY LONGFORD
  1. Abbeylara - in ruins of the Cistercian Tower.
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COUNTY MEATH

  1. Kells - missing from church.
  2. Tara - on ancient standing stone, St. Adamnan's Pillar, perhaps the earliest known Sheela.
  3. Rosnaree - on wall of old water mill.
  4. Dowth - on the south wall of the Church, in ruins.
  5. Ardcath - on private property.
COUNTY DUBLIN
  1. Stepaside - on a short cross, along the Enniskerry road.
  2. Malahide - on a quoin in the choir, at the ruins of Malahide Abbey.
  3. Swords - at the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.
  4. Lusk - missing, buried in 1844.
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COUNTY LOUTH
  1. Drogheda - in Millmount Museum.
COUNTY SLIGO
  1. Behy Castle - ruins of castle.
  2. Moygara - fallen corbel stone, laying on ground at entrance to the castle.
COUNTY ROSCOMMON
  1. Cloghan - private Castle, on cornerstone of Tower.
  2. Scregg - two figures from castle, now on Scregg House.
  3. Emlagh More - on decorated stone near Temple House.
  4. Rahara - on keystone of church.
  5. Boyle Abbey - on the western corbel outside knave.
COUNTY GALWAY
  1. Ballinderry - on the keystone of the pointed arch of the main entrance of Ballinderry Castle, built circa 1540.
COUNTY CAVAN
  1. Cavan - from ruins of an old church, now in the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.
  2. Lavey - found buried in a graveyard in 1842, now in the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.
  3. Toomregan - on a Romanesque door outside the Protestant church, though probably originally from the early monastery of Tuaim Drecon.
COUNTY DONEGAL
  1. Lough Eske - missing, recorded in 1846.
  2. Carndonagh - on roadside opposite church.
NORTHERN IRELAND
COUNTY DERRY
  1. Maghera - on the north masonry of the tower at the old church, disfigured.
COUNTY FERMANAGH
  1. Boa Island - in the graveyard at Caldragh Church, next to the famous Janus figure; originally from Lustymore Isand.
  2. White Island - on the wall near entrance to old church.
  3. Aghalurcher - Romanesque figure of acrobatic motif.
COUNTY ANTRIM
  1. Shane's Castle - missing, recorded 1927.
COUNTY TYRONE
  1. Errigal Keerogue - from the church, now in the Ulster Museum, Belfast.
  2. Armagh - in the chapter house of the cathedral.
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