"Legend has it that it's always been here," Maeve said as she led me around the property, accompanied by Tim, her family's friendly chocolate Labrador. She looked in the direction of an ornate stone effigy in the church graveyard. Depicted on the flat gravestone was the figure of a man standing with his hands together at the thumbs, palms facing outward, referencing the interred person's charitable nature. "He's giving," she said.