Ballycloghduff (Westmeath)


Perhaps a Séamas-an-bhuid or Lusty Man ?

The strange Irish gate-pillar figure holding a key, which is
perhaps as much as five centuries later than the Romanesque exhibitionist carvings.

Compare this figure with...

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...another remarkable key-bearer at Broadford, county Clare, sawn off at the waist...

and so possibly exhibitionist also before it was mutilated.


Compare the Ballycloghduff Lusty Man with the male on the Romanesque doorway at Saint-Front-sur-Nizonne in France.


click for another remarkable post-Romanesque phallic Irish carving
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