photographed in 1976 .

National Monuments photo from 2010., with more lichen.

See a more recent photo of the figure (2016)

from the same website and by the same photographer as this view of the castle
to which I have added the arrow.

The castle overklooks the river Suir.

John Davis White in Anthologia Tipperariensis (1892) wrote:

"There is a grotesque and indelicate figure, cut in stone,
over the castle door, said to be a caricature of the cook,
in revenge for her incivility to the tradesmen employed in building the castle."