Roche Castle Dundalk & the Ghost of Rohesia deVerdun - Diary of a Ditch Witch
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- Опубликовано: 29 июл 2024
- I've been working on this for a quite a while now....and I'm so excited to finally introduce Roche Castle, Co. Louth, Ireland! Built by Rohesia de Verdun in the 12th century, it is the only castle in Ireland to have been built by a woman.
Built 800 years ago after the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland by the granddaughter of Bertram de Verdun, Henry II's trusted advisor, Castle Roche survived raids from the Gaels and The Battle of Dundalk (featuring Edward Bruce) in Ulster but finally fell during Cromwell's invasion, leaving behind tales of murder windows and unlucky husbands....
Meanwhile in England, Rohesia's ghost is apparently restless, and has been causing quite a ruckus over in Leicestershire!
Game of Thrones wouldn't get a look in!
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Roche castle drone footage by Paul Hanratty.
Grace Dieu drone footage by www.carlspencerphotography.co.uk
Additional footage by:
North West Leicestershire District Council
www.de-verdun.uk
www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk
ROCS Adventures
Featuring music (used with permission) by:
Zoe Conway - zoeconway.com/
Tara Tine - taratine.bandcamp.com/
Bonjour je suis un descendant de la famille de Verdun , Bertram 1, 2 , Norman 1 , Bertram 3 , Norman 2 etc....j adore cette époque et suis très fière d avoir en moi ce sangs Normand 😊❤❤❤
Only just discovered your channel me daughter and myself love it , my dad John Lee came from Dundalk haven't been there since 1981 .
Tara I loved every minute of your vlog. The images, the music, your beautiful narration, the history, the drone footage & your wee face ❤ 10/10!!!!
YAY! 😆 It was a bit of a new direction but I loooovvvved it, glad you did too 😍
@@DiaryofaDitchWitch I didn't know this channel existed Tara and it is FAB my friend
Thanks Dominic! Glad you're enjoying!
One place I always try to take visiting family to. As a blow in there's so much of the history I didn't know. Brilliant! Thank you.
Most welcome Mikki, glad you enjoyed (don't worry, most locals don't know the story either :-p)
Great video. The murder window is the one that is blocked up now due to tourists wanting to have photos taken sitting in window. Fab video tho, liked and will follow for more. Great work
Great, thanks Macs Media! So glad you enjoyed 😊
Amazing video
Your video is very good very educational. Thank you
There's supposed to be a tunnel to an external round tower of all things.
I wonder was she a Cathar from the south of France. Nights Templars were chasing them and burnt them at the stake. Some escaped though and building Impenetrable castles in the 1200s was kinda their thing. Dualism accompanied by meditation and magic.
French Cathars
Caher/Cathair/ .. what to do?
In Wales it's Cadair or Ca'er
Caher na mart for example. Wesport- 700 disappeared there to make room for the landlords house. My guess would be westport welcomed pagan pilgrims to croagh patrick back in the day. Serpentinite rock that mountain is made of 🐍 athair means father and snake. Athair neamh means sea snake.
Rohese is very like rose/ roisin.
Rose-Croix
Chances are the druids went up in smoke too!
Rant over!
Slán!
What a class video, we tried to visit Roche Castle today and the OPW had boarded it up, could only walk around the grounds, raging we couldn't go in 😳
That's news to me....how odd! 🤔
@@DiaryofaDitchWitch yeah seems to be a very recent thing they did
This was really interesting!
Brilliant Tara.Very Well Done...
Thanks Paddy! 😊
I love how informative this was! It’s my first time viewing your channel, but this was SO fun to watch! I like learning about history and this was just so neatly done! Thanks, friend! 🙂
Thank you Robert! Great to have you with us here 😊
This vid was so so good!! Ty
Thanks Aria!
Absolutely loved it. Originally from Ardee, living in Dublin, my kid brought your video to my attention. Keep up the good work.
@silverback10101 so glad you and sprog enjoyed! Have another great local history one like this coming up in about a fortnight hopefully, and some fab Louth wisdom and weather lore coming out later today 😊
Amazing video Tara. Have done a couple of Paranormal investigations there.
At Roche Castle? Do we need to do an interview? 😊
That is a fantastic video Tara. I only knew the lady's name, but none of the history. Thank You!
Thanks Caroline! I didn't know it either before researching, it was actually a lot easier to find than I expected!
awesome video! Keep up the good work!
Thank you!
If your nickname is Raging Rose, apparently even becoming a nun, us not enough to keep you quiet in your grave. You go Rosie girl!
I must admit I invented that nickname, but a surviving descendent of the deVerduns has seen the video and did not disagree or take offence 😆 so I take that as an endorsement 😋
My Dear Ditch Witch: well done girlfriend!
Such a shame the castle has been left to fall apart just cause its in the middle of nowhere unlike johns castle.
Is there a consensus on how Rohesia is pronounced? At least by the Irish and English? Love this video!
Thanks Merprincesspacifica! I have no idea, since I had never heard her name pronounced by anyone before I made this, and the few people who have talked about her to me since usually call her Rose 😬 It's a relatively little known story from our history!
Great video and footage very nice indeed well done just loved it got my support big thumbs up from me and new subscriber here thanks for sharing have a great day
Thank you so much! Great to have you on board :-)
@@DiaryofaDitchWitch your welcome love that castle have to go back when the travel restrictions are lifted cheers