Tinnakill Castle

Tin[n]akill Castle (Laois)

Said to be originally on a window-jamb on the second floor.

Gabriel Cannon wrote:
"The above is copied from a photo taken by Miss Helen Roe, circa 1934.
At that period, it and another similar(?) Sheela stood on the top of a wall boundary of Tinakill House,
and I imagine from the time when the house was being built.
As a young boy my father pointed the two stones out to me and I was disappointed to learn later that
they were both taken down when some building work was being carried on at the house."

from another website:
"Two sheelanagigs were built into the coping of the gate entrance wall of Mrs Fennelly's house in the Dangans
where they suffered a misfortune with a truck. Both were broken as a result and were later used as building material.
One was part of the jamb of a window of the 16th century castle, the other came from Portnahinch Castle.

But Gabriel Cannon wrote:
"As regards a claim that one of them came from Portnahinch Castle, I think that this is incorrect.
There was never to my limited knowledge, a castle of that name.
However, there was (now a large ruin) Lea Castle in the barony of Portnahinch some miles away,
which would have had little or no obvious connection with Tinakill.
On the other hand, there are references to there having been another castle at Acragar,
sited between Tinakill and Mountmellick,
and there was once a church (The New Commons of Daingans)in this area.
Either of these might have had a link with the second Shella at Tinakill House?
Is or was it unusual to find two Sheelas in the one site?”