The buildings where it lay are now levelled, and the figure itself was moved in 1993 to Hollymount Village, where it remains today. What makes its original location quietly puzzling is that sheela-na-gigs are almost always associated with castles or churches, and yet the precise medieval structures that once stood in this part of Mayo have largely vanished from the landscape, leaving the carving without a clear home in the record.

The Strafford Inquisition, a seventeenth-century survey of landholding in Connacht carried out under the direction of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, records the moiety, meaning one half, of the castle town and lands of Lehinch among the properties listed for County Mayo. A castle and deserted settlement associated with that entry are recorded, but their exact positions on the ground remain unknown. A separate castle in the neighbouring townland of Knockalegan, which borders Lehinch Demesne to the east, was recorded on the 1837 Ordnance Survey six-inch map as a ruin and had been reduced to a mere site marking by the 1930 edition. Either this structure or a castle within Lehinch Demesne itself is considered the most plausible origin for the carving, though no firm connection has been established. The figure, displaced and re-sited, carries its ambiguity with it.