Corraghy head

19th century speculative drawing of the heads. The Corraghy heads are to the left and right; the Corleck Head is above and centre.[1]

The Corraghy head is the name given to an Irish stone idol sculpture uncovered c. 1855 in the townland of Drumeague, County Cavan. Although now broken apart and mostly lost, it originally consisted of a human head on one side and a ram's on the other, of which the human head survives, and is now in the National Museum of Ireland, but is rarely displayed.

The same excavation unearthed the contemporary Corleck stone idol.

The structure is usually dated to the Iron Age; based on its iconography probably to the 1st or 2nd century AD.

  1. ^ Barron (1976), p. 99

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