This is a sheela-na-gig, a category of medieval stone figure found across Ireland and Britain whose precise meaning remains debated, though theories range from apotropaic symbols meant to ward off evil to survivals of pre-Christian fertility imagery. The figure at Aghagower was carved in false relief, meaning the sculptor cut away a square background rather than building the figure outward from the stone, giving the whole composition a compressed, almost stamp-like quality. As Freitag noted in 2004, it faces the road and is genuinely difficult to make out.

The well into whose enclosing wall the slab is now built was named 'Dawach Patrick' on the 1929 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, and it sits a few metres to the north-west of a graveyard containing a medieval church and a round tower, all associated with the early medieval monastery of Aghagower. Round towers, the tall tapering stone structures that became a feature of Irish monastic sites from roughly the ninth century onward, served variously as bell towers and places of refuge, and Aghagower's is among the older ecclesiastical monuments clustered here. The sheela-na-gig itself was found somewhere in Aghagower, but its original location is not recorded. It was placed in its present position in the early 2000s, which means the wall it occupies is a modern setting rather than anything close to where the carving first stood or what structure it once adorned.

The figure faces the road, so it is visible from outside the well enclosure, though its small scale and worn surface mean it rewards close attention rather than a passing glance. A 3D model of the carving, produced by Digital Heritage Age, is accessible on the Sketchfab platform and gives a clearer sense of the relief work than a photograph might, particularly useful given how easily the carving disappears into the texture of the surrounding stone.