page_title: Clomantagh Castle
hierarchical_section_title: Clomantagh Castle
caption_attribution_description: English: Clonmantagh Sheela-na-gig Sheela-na-gig on Clonmantagh (also Croomantagh) castle, County Kilkenny. The earless figure has small breasts hanging to the sides, prominent ribs, the left hand reaching in front of the leg to spread the vulva, and the right hand waving. No toes are depicted on the feet. What may be braided hair or a pony tail extends from the back of the head to the left arm. This sheela is hard to see once the leaves are out on the tree.
context_page_description: Clomantagh Castle is a 15th-century tower house located near Freshford, County Kilkenny, in Ireland. Originally constructed in the 1430s, additional buildings and outbuildings were added in the subsequent centuries - including a connected 19th century farmhouse. Carvings on the castle's walls include a Sheela na gig relief.
  Situated on lands owned by the Earls of Ormond, on the death of Pierce 'Ruadh' Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond in 1539, the castle was inherited by his son, Richard Butler, 1st Viscount Mountgarret. It remained in the hands of the Butlers of Mountgarret through the 16th and 17th centuries, until its confiscation following the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
  The castle was subject to renovations in the late 20th century, and is now managed as a holiday rental property by the Irish Landmark Trust.
context_section_description: Clomantagh Castle is a 15th-century tower house located near Freshford, County Kilkenny, in Ireland. Originally constructed in the 1430s, additional buildings and outbuildings were added in the subsequent centuries - including a connected 19th century farmhouse. Carvings on the castle's walls include a Sheela na gig relief (a symbolic pagan nude).
  Situated on lands owned by the Earls of Ormond, on the death of Pierce 'Ruadh' Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond in 1539, the castle was inherited by his son, Richard Butler, 1st Viscount Mountgarret. It remained in the hands of the Butlers of Mountgarret through the 16th and 17th centuries, until its confiscation following the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
  The castle was subject to renovations in the late 20th century (which received an award from the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland), and is now managed as a holiday rental property by the Irish Landmark Trust.
caption: Sheela na gig relief at Clomantagh
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