Conway Mill Trust

On Boa Island on Lough Erne, there are two pre-Christian figures in Caldragh cemetery, the Janus statue and a smaller one ‘The Lusty Man’.  Janus is a double-sided figure of two beings carved back to back.  This is often referred to when the calendar year has just turned, and we are glancing back even as we go forward.  The month of January is named after Janus, the Roman God of gates and doors.  Coins and flowers are often placed by the statue for good luck.