Ballyfinboy Castle (Tipperary)

Carved in false relief, the wrinkles and paps or dugs of this fine quoin-figure are poorly-delineated or weathered,
but the clitoris seems to be well-indicated.
Compare the false-relief carving at Dunnaman Castle.

This, along with the figure at Kiltinane, was one of the first exhibitionists mentioned
- in the Ordnance Survey Letters of 1840.

The castle is in a state of near- collapse (2026).

A local man fairly recently referred to the carving as The Dancer (An Rinceoir in Irish),
and, apparently, there was a pub of that name in the vicinity.
A title which would better suit (and may have been applied to) some other figures,
such as Ballynahinch, below.

This brings to mind the very name sheela-na-jig,
as well as the many abhorrent and cursed entertainers on Romanesque churches.