The figure now sits in the porch of the modern Roman Catholic church in Cross village, a setting that feels both incongruous and oddly fitting for a carving with such a long and complicated relationship with Christian architecture.

The sheela-na-gig was originally positioned in Killursagh church, where it would have occupied the kind of liminal architectural space these carvings typically favour. By 1867, when the antiquarian William Wilde recorded it as a stone figure carved in relief, it had already been removed from the church and built into a nearby coach house, a fate that was not unusual for sculptures considered embarrassing or simply inconvenient by later generations. The 1968 publication by O Lochlainn preserved Wilde's account, keeping the carving in the scholarly record even as its physical location remained uncertain. It was not until 2012 that new information confirmed both the carving's identity as a sheela-na-gig and its current whereabouts in the church porch at Cross village, a journey from medieval ecclesiastical stonework to coach house wall to modern porch entrance that spans several centuries and a fair amount of institutional amnesia.