The Jumping Church

Jordo141

Apparently locally near Ardee there's a ruined church, that in which one of the walls "jumped" 3 feet; supposedly to place the grave of an excommunicated man outide the walls.

I heard of this story aas a child and only now do I remember and wish to know more.

Link of story and a few theories:
http://www.irishidentity.com/extras/supernat/stories/kildemock.htm

Few images:
http://www.geograph.ie/photo/1772386

dollydishmop

I went there a few years ago for other reasons, and spotted the odd bit of wall and the info plaque. No idea how or why it happened, but its kinda cool.

CajunPenguin

holy crap that's deadly!

baalthor

When I was a kid and we used to travel along this road my parents would say "we're near the jumping church now"

I would look out the car window expecting to see a church flying through the air ... and was disappointed ...

[Jackass]

Maybe there were two walls and one of them just completely collapsed and is no longer there? Looks like the grave was never inside the boundires of the wall to begin with, and may have been excommunicated at time of burial..double walled so they can't come in and the story grew legs over the centuries?