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Field Visit
Date 29 July 1923 - 31 July 1923
Event ID 824695
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/824695
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The tower bears the following sculptured panels:
South wall - A central panel representing a nude female nursing a child and in a crouching attitude; the right hand upper corner contains a rectangular object with a spout. A similar panel occurs on the south wall of the refectory at Iona Nunnery. These figures appear to belong to the class termed in Ireland, "Shiela na gigs" which are sometimes attached to ecclesiastical edifices. Thirty-two examples have been listed in Ireland, three in England and a series on one church in France (1).
RCAHMS 1928, visited 29-31 July 1923.
(1) Cf. Proc. R.S. Ant., Ireland, Vol. XXIV (1894), p.77.
