"STONE HEAD"

Width: 16cm
Thickness: 15cm
Height: 20cm

A stone head with a bulbous head, oval eyes in false relief, a slit for a mouth, vaguely defined lips in low relief, oval face with narrow chin and no ears. A small socket at the base tapers to a point. Refer also to FCM_1978_268 for a similar Cleenish head. This head may have belonged to an effigial tomb, possibly from St. Sinnell's Church on Cleenish. The socket at the base may have been used to attach this head to the body of a recumbent effigy. In this particular stone head, the hole (socket) is 4.3cm deep and tapers to a point. The tomb, of which it may have formed a part, may now be underneath the military barracks at Enniskillen where so many stones from Cleenish were dumped at the end of the 18th century.

FCM_1978_269