A sheela-na-gig is a type of grotesque female exhibitionist carving found on medieval churches, castles, and other structures across Ireland and Britain, their origins and purpose still debated by scholars. This one is now placed near the tower of Castle Widenham, though what journey it took from its original setting to the riverbed remains unknown.

The figure itself is described in careful and slightly unsettling detail. The oval head bears obliterated facial features, as though the face was deliberately erased or worn beyond recognition, but what survives is an unusual head-dress of two divided triangular pieces that fall to the shoulders. The torso is lean, with no indication of breasts or ribs, and the neck is barely defined. The legs are widely splayed with knees bent, the right hand pointing to the genital area and the left resting on the left thigh. This posture is consistent with the broader sheela-na-gig tradition, though the head-dress is noted as particularly unusual within that corpus. The Ordnance Survey had recorded the figure as lying beside a holy well in the area, suggesting it may once have occupied a liminal or devotional space before its disappearance into the river.

Access to the castle grounds is not currently possible, as the landowner has denied entry to the site. The figure is therefore not one that can be visited in any straightforward sense, which may itself say something about the fate of many such carvings, quietly inaccessible, neither fully lost nor fully recoverable.