Virgin and Child on stump in Rathkeale, Limerick, Ireland

Virgin and Child on stump in Rathkeale, Limerick, Ireland


Legend has it that a female specter which haunted the churchyard in Rathkeale, Limerick, was so terrifying that all who looked upon her died soon after. A local man banished the ghost by slicing off her arm with his sword & praying for the rest of the night. In an odd coincidence in 2009, the Limerick Newsire reported that a tree stump in the churchyard contains the image of the Virgin Mary & Child, & that hundreds of visitors had come to the area to pray.

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