My eyes welled up seeing the condition of the graveyard, with some stones less than 30 years old. I worried about you hurting yourself on all that unsafe ground. Then we went into the church! My heart sank, the tears flowed, and I can't explain why. I only hope no-one is buried under the floor in there. Thank you Sue and Irish Eyes for enduring the cold to show this one. Deb of Oz.
I think it's still very beautiful even as it is, sad yes, I do hope there are plans for the church and graveyard, it looks like someone has or is clearing the area, I didn't think of anyone buried under the floor as there would be normally a priest or Bishop.. I just don't know the answers ❤
@@SerenitySueGraveyards I agree Sue, it is beautiful! I have ancestors buried under chapel floors in Somerset and Monmouthshire from the 15 and 1600s. Glad to have pictures of them as they will be illegible soon from being walked on. I think that's where all my emotion came from yesterday, lol!
It is the crown 👑 of thorns of Christ that he wore. Really beautifully made with Barbed wire.Thank you for taking us on this journey. Such a beautiful church.
What a terrible shame. I am sure that church has heard thousands of prayers. It has served it's community. It is time for the community to serve the church! Beautiful place. Thank you Sue and Irish Eyes for taking us along 💕
It's great to see that the cemetery is being cleared. I'd love to see the church restored. The barbed wire on the iron cross reminds me of the Crown of thorns, placed on Jesus' head on the cross.
Thank you for the tour of the abandoned church and cemetary. What a treat to go on a walkabout with Sue and Irish Eyes on St. Patrick's Day. I was a little nervous for you Sue walking on that pitted ground. It looked as tho it could collapse . Good effort by Irish Eyes and Sue reading the worn engravings.
A beautiful Church, it looks like they have used new wooden frames/supports around the doorways. Judging by the way the trees have grown completely through those railings around some of the graves, I would say a lot of the holes are earth subsidence where maybe some trees have been removed. It would take a lot of money to restore this Church, but would be worth a try surely even as you said converting it into a home. I can see now why the reasons for the totally different design in the previous video came about. Thank you so much Sue, blessungs to you and Irish eyes 💕🇦🇺
So fascinating and yet sad. In it's time I bet it was a beautiful church and with all the pews gone as well. It would be interesting to know the history of this church and how it got to the condition it is in now. Loved this one guys, thanks for sharing and braving the cold.
I go into older churches that are still in use and feel the sacredness of years of prayers by devout souls. It is always uplifting to feel that sense of community. And here is a once sacred place that has been de-consecrated, yet still holding those fervent moments of faithful lives, now used as a trash dump by thoughtless people Heartbreaking.
Yes thelma that's terrible but what I don't understand is this, there were photos there, a sign with a mobile number and folders with groups info, so easily traced to dumpers if needed to, so I wonder is this rubbish from inside the church while they are cleaning?? Hard to know but yes that ceiling inside wow, so beautiful 😍
@@SerenitySueGraveyards if it was people working on the church, you'd think they'd begin my taking out the trash to have room to start work on the building.
Hello dear Sue, thank you for taking us along. Very sad to see the graveyard and the church in such poor condition, it must have been a beautiful place in its heyday. Happy St. Patrick's day my friend 🍀🍀❤🍀🍀
I may have said this before but when I see daffodils in an old cemetery like that I always wonder could they have been planted 100+ years ago and still be coming back every year? Beautiful place, thanks so much for sharing, Sue ❤️
@@SerenitySueGraveyards There was daffodils in our old family estate Barnbarroch, Kirkinner) in Scotland that may date to 1806 or perhaps earlier. The snowdrops are very old as well.
Sue dearest, your devotion to the departed and their graves is touching to me. What beautiful old monuments and stones marking the places where were some were laid to rest. And now some creature has chosen to make a den and raise a family in the company of the departed.. the living have forsaken the upkeep and the beautiful old church. How sad it seems to me. And why vandals would break the windows is beyond understanding,,,,this need to destroy is beyond anything rational
Hi Sue! That was worth a two-hour drive on a cold day. A spirit level would be an appropriate find in an old abandoned church. It looks to me that there's been some recent work on the roof downpipes. There's a tradition here that when a church is declared closed the bell is removed for safekeeping or reuse elsewhere, although although I'm not sure it's done in every case. One urbexer I know of never touches anything unless he's wearing latex gloves because he says you never know what infections you might pick up. 🇦🇺 🇮🇪
It would be amazing to see this restored into a home. I was happy to see that someone had attempted to clean up the graveyard, and it looks like they're doing some work on the old church. Such a beautiful place.
What a beautiful peaceful place for a final resting . The church is amazing , just left with all its memories . Thank you for taking me along to all the fantastic places I'd never know about .🙏
@@SerenitySueGraveyards Ta failte mo chairde. It would be great if the local council could save her. It looks like Church of Ireland possibly. Sad but beautiful.
Thank you so much it's sad to see the beautiful church left in ruins it looks like someone used it for a dump..the grave with the photos of the couple must have been they where born there and wanted to be buried there ..Rip Amen xx
Hi s Sue i live 2 km from the grave yard the church was for sale as far as i know for a few years back .great video by both of you thanks for taking the time ,after a long drive .x
I visited here yesterday. The doll is gone but the rest of the rubbish is still there. The graveyard has become overgrown since your video so some of the gravestones were inaccessible. A beautiful church.
The church looked so beautiful , watching the abandoned church and the burial ground all uneven like that made me emotional for some reason I just felt so much sadness , would of been a amazing looking place once , thankyou for sharing ❤
@@SerenitySueGraveyards omg I have the same dream complete with a little cemetery out the back there is a place like that here in Wisemans Ferry very beautiful
Querida Serenity, desde España te envío un gran abrazo y 🤗 quiero decirte que tus videos son muy instructivos porque hay mucha Historia perdida en los Cementerios. Este, especialmente porque es el Condado cuna de grandes familias americanas.
Nice one...that place is so gothic and bleak..looks excellent for a horror movie...im thinking the old hammer type..but very sad too as you say..even the grass is dead....I wonder if that was a foxes earth there with the holes..? They can turn up the bones sometimes..as do badgers...
Good morning. Some people must feel that is a great accomplishment to break the windows of a old church. Thouse are old graves and I wonder what these people were like. Have a great day.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🇦🇺great session,sad about the rubbish but places that are deserted often become rubbish tips,anyone caught should be made to clean up the whole area,hopefully some historical group I’d church can rescue the bell before it’s vandalised or stolen,safe travels to you both,good health from ballarat in Oz,👍
Hi there Sue! Helen here, that was truly a beautiful and really interesting place to visit! But I kept thinking from the start “ I just hope Irish Eyes is with Sue, I’m getting a” feeling of foreboding!” and sure enough when we went to the right, there were all those mounds and holes ,I just KNEW you would want to investigate!! Omg! Imagine falling in one of those!! Skeletons,sculls or angry badgers being woken up! Lol….so Thankyou Irish Eyes…you do a grand body guard job! Bless you!. In all seriousness I do think badgers are the culprits, and with no one going near for a long time it’s literally going back to nature! The metal cross you looked at…I was thinking the barbed wire circle could have been representing the crown of thorns Jesus Christ was forced to wear. Also over here in the U.K., I often see graves of vicars just marked by a metal cross-no details, but I just by chance know it was a vicar or Priest who was buried in that grave. Just a thought about the barbed wire crown, and if anyone was going to have one on a simple metal market, I think it would be someone very religious ,don’t you? Just a thought anyway. 🤔 It was good you found that leaning grave at the back dated 1700 something…that was very old indeed! . Of course,like today, not everyone can afford a gravestone, so I’m thinking some of those raised long shaped mounds must have been very old graves. I wonder where the book for that church recording births,deaths,marriages has gone….also didn’t see a Baptism font?? Or even an Altar!?. I was very sad to see the damage vandalism done to the place..even the front doors had been taken…I imagine having been there pre 1700 they would have been lovely,possibly carved heavy oak doors, someone thought they could sell to one of these places that like that sort of thing to sell on for barn conversions etc, wicked people. And often a church would have a cast iron stove to warm the place during a service…again nothing. But as you said Sue, it would make a fantastic home, with gallery for upper floor, or even for the local community with a grant, a place to meet for a coffee and chat, and for others to do their hobbies..some people have portable looms that can’t be set up in another home, but the light for doing hobbies, painting,pottery,weaving etc would be ideal. See…my brains run ahead of me again! Sorry guys. I just DONT want to imagine the building being left to crumble or be knocked down, it really is such a beautiful place you found to show us. So from the bottom of my heart, Thankyou for the long drive you endured to share this. It was a joy! Love and light to you both! Helen 🙋♀️💕😘😘👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙏🦋😺xx
Oops! Great minds think alike! I didn’t look at other people comments before adding my lengthy one! ( sorry Sue!) but am glad to see I’m not the only one who thought the barbed wire circlet represented the Crown of Thorns Poor Jesus was made to wear!! Love Helen x🙋♀️
Thanks Helen, I do think it was stripped bare and definitely badgers in the ground, Irish eyes now has his own channel but we travel together always, love your ideas for the church, hopefully something will be done, God Bless ❤❤❤
Serenity Sue, I LOVE Celtic Crosses! I ware a Celtic Cross around my neck. The church, and the cemetery is so beautiful. Is there any date on the outside of the church, to know the age of it?
Beautiful church such a shame about the broken windows and inside. The roof looks good and some of the downpipes are new. It looks like someone has dumped stuff you could understand if it's hymn books but it didn't seem to be. I thought I saw a suitcase, a bed frame such a shame those arches would have been beautiful in it's time. I was wondering where you'd go up here. I'll have to look it up. Thanks and Happy St Patrick's day.
That church is still good for restoration, but if you wanna have it as a house what to do with the graveyard? Old and a new graves, and it is a bit off a mess aswel, very nice walk around thnx.
Sue any ideal how old the church is beautiful I would have loved to see it back in it's heyday . It must have had a full house of followers back then. Some rich person should buy the grounds and the church clean it up and restore it back to it's glory and have special occasions i.e. weddings and what not
It was gorgeous and I'm sure something will be done, as for rubbish, who'd do that, sick really, I'm hoping it came for rom the inside as they eared cupboards and presses..but then why didn't they take it❤🤔
Sue I hope you were very careful in the back of the church with all those holes in the ground. At first glance it looks like animal holes but many some of the graves collapsing in. Btw who is your sidekick that goes with you
I need to come out there I do make stained glass windows but if I do the kid will probably brake them as well it is so sad to see all those papers and Pic everywhere and the history that is runed its just a tragedy 😪
It is Linda but I'm so glad we got to see it as you can still see how beautiful it must have been, I still find the church beautiful in the abandoned state, wish the rubbish wasn't there 😢
@@SerenitySueGraveyards I wonder who owns the land now. Maybe the church sold it? Although, it’s not really a big enough parcel to be worth it to the nearby farmers. It’s so odd that the church was there in the first place. It seems so isolated now, it must have been more so in 1827.
You know there are people who explore abandoned homes that are seemingly reclaimed by nature. And then there are people who load up the truck with whatever they can carry. Allthough I dont see a chesterfeild with Lanky bits of Loose Change in the corner
Have you done a video on Bridgetown Abbey near Castletownroche , it’s a fascinating ruin that we have to walk through to get to the river for salmon fishing, built by William Fitzhugh Roche ( I think) think it was a 13 th century Augustinian Monastery !
Near Castletownroche which is not far from Ballyhooly. It’s a fabulous ruin with cloisters and lots still standing. Built because of its proximity to the river Blackwater and is just upstream from where the river Awbeg joins the Blackwater. When I’m fishing there I’m always imagining the monks catching salmon there to ! If you go walk through the Abbey and find the river about 100 yds behind it, there’s a huge limestone cliff where the river bends 🙂 I think it’s off the N72 road, google it but certainly worth a video 🙂
Sue,take your time & tread carefully. In the U.S. of A., and I believe in Ireland, as well, "Wynne" is pronounced "win", not "wine". You might want to double-check that for me.
@@SerenitySueGraveyards Honestly, please double-check. Wynne is generally recognized as an Irish family-name here in the States, & it's pronounced "Win", but I'm not sure about in Ireland.
@@SerenitySueGraveyards hope you do sue it is extremely old worth seeing thanks for the reply.theres another place too called ballyadams .old cemetery connected to the castle there its off the beaten track.
So many cardboard pieces - it looks like perhaps someone was storing some stuff in cardboard boxes, which just came apart and then others came in and scattered the contents.
Sue plenty of fresh food for the rabbit they love dandelions for the white substance in the stem of the flower that is why he looked a bit fat plenty of food and all fresh
My eyes welled up seeing the condition of the graveyard, with some stones less than 30 years old. I worried about you hurting yourself on all that unsafe ground. Then we went into the church! My heart sank, the tears flowed, and I can't explain why. I only hope no-one is buried under the floor in there. Thank you Sue and Irish Eyes for enduring the cold to show this one. Deb of Oz.
I think it's still very beautiful even as it is, sad yes, I do hope there are plans for the church and graveyard, it looks like someone has or is clearing the area, I didn't think of anyone buried under the floor as there would be normally a priest or Bishop.. I just don't know the answers
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@@SerenitySueGraveyards I agree Sue, it is beautiful! I have ancestors buried under chapel floors in Somerset and Monmouthshire from the 15 and 1600s. Glad to have pictures of them as they will be illegible soon from being walked on. I think that's where all my emotion came from yesterday, lol!
It is the crown 👑 of thorns of Christ that he wore. Really beautifully made with Barbed wire.Thank you for taking us on this journey. Such a beautiful church.
Yes Sylvia, how amazing to see that, made by hand too I'm sure ❤
What a terrible shame. I am sure that church has heard thousands of prayers. It has served it's community. It is time for the community to serve the church! Beautiful place. Thank you Sue and Irish Eyes for taking us along 💕
Thanks Janice, well said ❤
You have taken us to such a unbelievable beautiful place, I have never seen anything like this in the USA. Thank you for taking us on this journey sue
Thanks, this is super cool and beautiful 😍
It's great to see that the cemetery is being cleared. I'd love to see the church restored. The barbed wire on the iron cross reminds me of the Crown of thorns, placed on Jesus' head on the cross.
Yes a crown of thorns, someone made that by hand, how fantastic 😀 ❤
I was thinking the same thing.
My uncle goes and maintains our family grave.
Thank you for the tour of the abandoned church and cemetary. What a treat to go on a walkabout with Sue and Irish Eyes on St. Patrick's Day. I was a little nervous for you Sue walking on that pitted ground. It looked as tho it could collapse . Good effort by Irish Eyes and Sue reading the worn engravings.
Thanks Douglas I always want to read them all but not always possible ❤
A beautiful Church, it looks like they have used new wooden frames/supports around the doorways. Judging by the way the trees have grown completely through those railings around some of the graves, I would say a lot of the holes are earth subsidence where maybe some trees have been removed. It would take a lot of money to restore this Church, but would be worth a try surely even as you said converting it into a home. I can see now why the reasons for the totally different design in the previous video came about. Thank you so much Sue, blessungs to you and Irish eyes 💕🇦🇺
Thank you Liz, if I win the lottery I'm buying this 😘❤
So fascinating and yet sad. In it's time I bet it was a beautiful church and with all the pews gone as well. It would be interesting to know the history of this church and how it got to the condition it is in now. Loved this one guys, thanks for sharing and braving the cold.
Anything I found it's in the description box below, not much info out there ❤
Thank you serenity sue I absolutely love your accent thanks for bringing Irish history to us from Oregon USA Ireland Numero uno on my bucket to visit
Hey Lance, thank you so much ❤️ 🙏
I go into older churches that are still in use and feel the sacredness of years of prayers by devout souls. It is always uplifting to feel that sense of community. And here is a once sacred place that has been de-consecrated, yet still holding those fervent moments of faithful lives, now used as a trash dump by thoughtless people
Heartbreaking.
Yes thelma that's terrible but what I don't understand is this, there were photos there, a sign with a mobile number and folders with groups info, so easily traced to dumpers if needed to, so I wonder is this rubbish from inside the church while they are cleaning?? Hard to know but yes that ceiling inside wow, so beautiful 😍
@@SerenitySueGraveyards if it was people working on the church, you'd think they'd begin my taking out the trash to have room to start work on the building.
Yes very true Thelma ❤🤔
So beautiful. Happy St. Patrick's Day Sue and Irish eyes. I can't believe the bell is still there. ✌&💚 🍀🍀
Pretty cool ❤❤
I love all the places you take us too. Thank you Serenity Sue and Irish eyes. Another beautiful place
What a gorgeous Church, even in its abandoned state, it was still gorgeous 😍
Hello dear Sue, thank you for taking us along. Very sad to see the graveyard and the church in such poor condition, it must have been a beautiful place in its heyday. Happy St. Patrick's day my friend 🍀🍀❤🍀🍀
Thanks Shela ❤️
I may have said this before but when I see daffodils in an old cemetery like that I always wonder could they have been planted 100+ years ago and still be coming back every year? Beautiful place, thanks so much for sharing, Sue ❤️
Daffodils are hardier there due to the mild climate. They last way longer than in the northern USA.
True but they may be older than we think as they are so Hardy they come back each year ❤
@@SerenitySueGraveyards There was daffodils in our old family estate Barnbarroch, Kirkinner) in Scotland that may date to 1806 or perhaps earlier. The snowdrops are very old as well.
Esperando lo mejor de lo mejor en este canal ... Mañana visitaré un cementerio que conocí hoy
Thank you, such a beautiful church, even though abandoned ❤
Wow that church looks awesome. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks Lauren, I love it 😀
@@SerenitySueGraveyards i just wish people didn't vandalize it. So disrespectful
Me too, hate that 😪
Sue dearest, your devotion to the departed and their graves is touching to me. What beautiful old monuments and stones marking the places where were some were laid to rest. And now some creature has chosen to make a den and raise a family in the company of the departed.. the living have forsaken the upkeep and the beautiful old church. How sad it seems to me. And why vandals would break the windows is beyond understanding,,,,this need to destroy is beyond anything rational
Thanks Marilyn, much appreciated 🙏
Wow……so beautiful! That steeple is amazing!
I loved it here, so sad to see it like this
OMG! How beautiful! Sad yet so stunning!
Thanks Teresa ❤️
Such a beautiful church!
Stunning Nancy 😍
Great video Sue! That must have been a beautiful church!
Thanks Liz ❤️
Thank you Sue. So beautiful..appreciate you freezing just for us!!
Ahh thanks Alice 😊
Hi Sue! That was worth a two-hour drive on a cold day. A spirit level would be an appropriate find in an old abandoned church. It looks to me that there's been some recent work on the roof downpipes. There's a tradition here that when a church is declared closed the bell is removed for safekeeping or reuse elsewhere, although although I'm not sure it's done in every case. One urbexer I know of never touches anything unless he's wearing latex gloves because he says you never know what infections you might pick up. 🇦🇺 🇮🇪
Oh I made sure to sanitise right away, yes I think work has been done here too, so beautiful 😍
It would be amazing to see this restored into a home. I was happy to see that someone had attempted to clean up the graveyard, and it looks like they're doing some work on the old church. Such a beautiful place.
I I had the money Kim this would be exactly what I'd do ❤️
Thank you Sue!! Amazing!!❤️
Thanks Tres, so beautiful 😍
TY for this! I missed it. I love how you give the history and explain things. May GOD Bless you :)
Isn't it a stunning church, even in ruins its beautiful
@@SerenitySueGraveyards Yes it is. In so much ruin. TY for sharing and the history. I'm glad you take the time. I so enjoy
You're most welcome 🙏
What a beautiful peaceful place for a final resting . The church is amazing , just left with all its memories . Thank you for taking me along to all the fantastic places I'd never know about .🙏
Thanks Caron ❤️
I enjoy your cemetery tours and scenery.... watching from Nova Scotia!🇨🇦
Hi Gail, that so so much, appreciate it ❤️
The church looks from outside like it could be a painted canvas. The cemetary is so sad. 😢 Be careful dear Sue in all ways.❤😊❤😊 thanx for the walk.
Thanks Deborah, it's a shame to see this abandoned
Maith Sibh Sue! Well done! I like seeing the cameos on the stone. That lone church ⛪️ looks so beautiful. That’s so postcard Ireland!
Go raibh maith agat, beautiful 😍
@@SerenitySueGraveyards Ta failte mo chairde. It would be great if the local council could save her. It looks like Church of Ireland possibly. Sad but beautiful.
I'd love this project myself save this design turn it into a home and the graveyard I'd restore and take care of ❤
@@SerenitySueGraveyards It would truly be class Sue.
Thank you so much it's sad to see the beautiful church left in ruins it looks like someone used it for a dump..the grave with the photos of the couple must have been they where born there and wanted to be buried there ..Rip Amen xx
Thanks Elizabeth ❤️
Hi s
Sue i live 2 km from the grave yard the church was for sale as far as i know for a few years back .great video by both of you thanks for taking the time ,after a long drive .x
Wow, I'd adore this church, it's so beautiful 😍
@@SerenitySueGraveyards Hi Sue it was better bfore it was vandalised ,it was on the market ,but did not sell. thanks
Ahh it's absolutely fantastic even like it is
Beautiful vaulted ceiling in the chapel. Sad to see the windows broken and all of the trash. Beautiful Cemetery and location.
I absolutely adored this church, my idea of heaven would be to buy this keep the graveyard do it up and live there, oh well a girl can dream
It looks like it is going to be a good one! I can''t wait to view it. Keep up the fantastic work, Sue!
Thanks Timothy ❤️
You know I was just rewatching can u imagine the precession that came up along that forever long hedge/wall ? Wow that would be amazing sight
Imagine is right Linda, funerals, weddings etc, fun and sad times, I thought it was stunning 😍 ❤️
Was there today. Looking in vain for somewhere I haven't been before. Thanks to yourself and your vid. Beautiful location.
It's such a shame, what a beautiful church
Happy St. Patrick's Day! Having a pint watched the Quiet Man now watching you!
Brilliant I actually went to the village of cong and found some of the areas the movie was shot❤ the video is on here too
@@SerenitySueGraveyards Excellent! Just loved the old church. We pondered over what it looked like all them years ago. It must have been breathtaking.
I visited here yesterday. The doll is gone but the rest of the rubbish is still there. The graveyard has become overgrown since your video so some of the gravestones were inaccessible. A beautiful church.
Ahhh no, I was hoping it would have been cleaned up, what a shame
WOW very interesting super kool ,1st class great info.,,, AAAAAAAAAAA++++++++++++ again great video I liked it a lot ,keep up the great work.
Thanks John x
The church looked so beautiful , watching the abandoned church and the burial ground all uneven like that made me emotional for some reason I just felt so much sadness , would of been a amazing looking place once , thankyou for sharing ❤
Thank you, it's still very beautiful 😍
@@SerenitySueGraveyards it is very beautiful , I would love to see someone fix that church up
This is my dream, to own an abandoned church and make it into a home, how gorgeous would that be ❤
@@SerenitySueGraveyards omg I have the same dream complete with a little cemetery out the back there is a place like that here in Wisemans Ferry very beautiful
Perfect church too renovate into a home!
I know right, oh if I had the money I would and I'd keep the graveyard like a garden x
I love that name so different
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Querida Serenity, desde España te envío un gran abrazo y 🤗 quiero decirte que tus videos son muy instructivos porque hay mucha Historia perdida en los
Cementerios. Este, especialmente porque es el
Condado cuna de grandes familias americanas.
Thank you Isabel, from the bottom of my heart ❤️
Nice one...that place is so gothic and bleak..looks excellent for a horror movie...im thinking the old hammer type..but very sad too as you say..even the grass is dead....I wonder if that was a foxes earth there with the holes..? They can turn up the bones sometimes..as do badgers...
I'm not sure, I thought badgers but it may well be foxes, very close to the graves alright, definitely gave me a gothis feel❤
@@SerenitySueGraveyards 😉👍
Good morning. Some people must feel that is a great accomplishment to break the windows of a old church. Thouse are old graves and I wonder what these people were like. Have a great day.
It's sickening so it I'd, why do they find it fun to do that? A sacred place, regardless of it being abandoned. ❤❤❤
Beautiful old church I hope the town folks step in to save it it must be saved
I hope someone will too ❤
Please go to Eyrecourt Chapel in County Galway. Be very careful when you go inside. There’s a hole in the floor.
Hi Colby, I love Galway, hoping to go back around the summer ❤
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🇦🇺great session,sad about the rubbish but places that are deserted often become rubbish tips,anyone caught should be made to clean up the whole area,hopefully some historical group I’d church can rescue the bell before it’s vandalised or stolen,safe travels to you both,good health from ballarat in Oz,👍
Thanks Peter ❤️
Nite to you and Irish eyes have a great day both of you from ballarat inOz,zzzzzzzz🇦🇺
Loved this.
Me too ❤
Beautiful church, has a sense of sadness all around the place.😢
Yes, hate seeing it abandoned 😞
Amazing
Hi there Sue! Helen here, that was truly a beautiful and really interesting place to visit! But I kept thinking from the start “ I just hope Irish Eyes is with Sue, I’m getting a” feeling of foreboding!” and sure enough when we went to the right, there were all those mounds and holes ,I just KNEW you would want to investigate!! Omg! Imagine falling in one of those!! Skeletons,sculls or angry badgers being woken up! Lol….so Thankyou Irish Eyes…you do a grand body guard job! Bless you!. In all seriousness I do think badgers are the culprits, and with no one going near for a long time it’s literally going back to nature! The metal cross you looked at…I was thinking the barbed wire circle could have been representing the crown of thorns Jesus Christ was forced to wear. Also over here in the U.K., I often see graves of vicars just marked by a metal cross-no details, but I just by chance know it was a vicar or Priest who was buried in that grave. Just a thought about the barbed wire crown, and if anyone was going to have one on a simple metal market, I think it would be someone very religious ,don’t you? Just a thought anyway. 🤔
It was good you found that leaning grave at the back dated 1700 something…that was very old indeed! .
Of course,like today, not everyone can afford a gravestone, so I’m thinking some of those raised long shaped mounds must have been very old graves. I wonder where the book for that church recording births,deaths,marriages has gone….also didn’t see a Baptism font?? Or even an Altar!?.
I was very sad to see the damage vandalism done to the place..even the front doors had been taken…I imagine having been there pre 1700 they would have been lovely,possibly carved heavy oak doors, someone thought they could sell to one of these places that like that sort of thing to sell on for barn conversions etc, wicked people. And often a church would have a cast iron stove to warm the place during a service…again nothing.
But as you said Sue, it would make a fantastic home, with gallery for upper floor, or even for the local community with a grant, a place to meet for a coffee and chat, and for others to do their hobbies..some people have portable looms that can’t be set up in another home, but the light for doing hobbies, painting,pottery,weaving etc would be ideal.
See…my brains run ahead of me again! Sorry guys. I just DONT want to imagine the building being left to crumble or be knocked down, it really is such a beautiful place you found to show us. So from the bottom of my heart, Thankyou for the long drive you endured to share this. It was a joy!
Love and light to you both!
Helen 🙋♀️💕😘😘👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙏🦋😺xx
Oops! Great minds think alike! I didn’t look at other people comments before adding my lengthy one! ( sorry Sue!) but am glad to see I’m not the only one who thought the barbed wire circlet represented the Crown of Thorns Poor Jesus was made to wear!! Love Helen x🙋♀️
Thanks Helen, I do think it was stripped bare and definitely badgers in the ground, Irish eyes now has his own channel but we travel together always, love your ideas for the church, hopefully something will be done, God Bless ❤❤❤
As abandoned churches go this one is in very good condition its a beautiful structure
I love it, it's superb
That church is incredible, I hope someone will save it from total ruin.
I'd love this place as my home
Serenity Sue, I LOVE Celtic Crosses! I ware a Celtic Cross around my neck. The church, and the cemetery is so beautiful. Is there any date on the outside of the church, to know the age of it?
Ahh I love the celtic design 😍
Maybe badgers were digging causing those mounds and holes near the graves? Peace and Love Rich and Roberta. We love your channel!
Thanks so much, it could be but very barren for them to have their little homes, I'd of presumed they'd choose a forest or wood area but who knows
What a beautiful church. Sad to see the church and burial grounds in that condition.
It is so beautiful even in this abandoned state, if I had money I'd buy it renovate and keep the graves and preserve them all ❤🌹
Sue, I absolutely loved that church! I wonder how old it is and how long it has been abandoned. I bet it was amazing in its day. 😍
Any info I found is in the description box below video, it's a gorgeous church ❤
I don’t know why people want to destroy history. That had to be a beautiful church in its day.
I don't know either, it's a shame, I still think the church is beautiful but I'd of loved to see it before it was abandoned ❤🌹
My great great grandfathers grave 🌟
Where about Jessica, did I read it ❤❤
Patrick carroll from miltown his body was brought by horse and cart to grave his family in kildare town cleaned that grave. Thank u 🙏❤️🌷😥🇨🇮
Thanks Ellen ❤️
Hi @Serenity Sue
Happy Saint Patrick's Day
Sorry i couldn't make it to the live streaming I was planning on it but had to eat dinner
You're here now Ben, that's what matters ❤
Hello, Happy St Patrick's Day to you all!
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It is so so sad to see such a magnificent and beautiful ol building such as this to go to wrack and ruin
It is sad, its so beautiful 😍
Beautiful church such a shame about the broken windows and inside. The roof looks good and some of the downpipes are new. It looks like someone has dumped stuff you could understand if it's hymn books but it didn't seem to be. I thought I saw a suitcase, a bed frame such a shame those arches would have been beautiful in it's time. I was wondering where you'd go up here. I'll have to look it up. Thanks and Happy St Patrick's day.
Thanks Beverley, it's near to New Bridge and it's on Google maps ❤
Happy St Patrick's Day.
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That church is still good for restoration, but if you wanna have it as a house what to do with the graveyard? Old and a new graves, and it is a bit off a mess aswel, very nice walk around thnx.
Thanks Rolf, I'd keep the graveyard and maintain it,that's a dream of mine ❤
Sue any ideal how old the church is beautiful I would have loved to see it back in it's heyday .
It must have had a full house of followers back then.
Some rich person should buy the grounds and the church clean it up and restore it back to it's glory and have special occasions i.e. weddings and what not
All info is under the video in description box, not much information found ❤❤
Such a beautiful old church should be restored not left to crumble or for people to leave garbage in or squat in. A shame.
It was gorgeous and I'm sure something will be done, as for rubbish, who'd do that, sick really, I'm hoping it came for rom the inside as they eared cupboards and presses..but then why didn't they take it❤🤔
I would live there it banging
I'd love to it's a dream of mine...if I win the lotto lol
Oh, it's quite beautiful. Maybe the community are going to restore the graveyard? It would be nice to think so.
I hope so too ❤
The SHeilds family home is 1km away they are a large family and good people god may they rest in peace great neighbours Sue
Such a shame what a beautiful church too xx
It is Lisa, still so beautiful 😍
Sue I hope you were very careful in the back of the church with all those holes in the ground.
At first glance it looks like animal holes but many some of the graves collapsing in.
Btw who is your sidekick that goes with you
That's Irish eyes he has his own channel, you should check him out ❤❤
Perfect setting for a Zombie movie or a perfect ghost hunt
I love this, if I had the money I'd make this into a beautiful home 🤔❤
I need to come out there I do make stained glass windows but if I do the kid will probably brake them as well it is so sad to see all those papers and Pic everywhere and the history that is runed its just a tragedy 😪
Yes, definitely broke by vandals, hate that people need to do that 😑
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We wonder if the ground there had holes from badgers??
Yes I think badgers too
Jack Doyle was the bollox that threw the baby doll down that hole
Well Jack made the perfect jump scare for me lol
@Serenity Sue hahahaha good one Sue ill make sure to let him know 🤣🤣
Hi sue, very saddened too see all the vandalism. It seems so sad to me people would do this in the house of our lord. Sad, very sad to see.
Yes it's shocking, I don't understand the need to vandalise any thing, never mind a church, very sad 💔
Beautiful Gothic style church! So sad that ppl have just dumped trash in there!
It is but this church must have been stunning before it became abandoned, I still think its beautiful ❤
Yeah, it was probably amazing back in its heyday! Still is! 🙂
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So sad to see the church in that state Sue such a shame .💚
It is Linda but I'm so glad we got to see it as you can still see how beautiful it must have been, I still find the church beautiful in the abandoned state, wish the rubbish wasn't there 😢
It has been a lovely church in its day it is a shame how they end up
Yes that's so true Sheila
Is there a possibility that all those holes are where someone had begun to re-locate the graves ?
I didn't actually think of that 🤔
@@SerenitySueGraveyards I wonder who owns the land now. Maybe the church sold it? Although, it’s not really a big enough parcel to be worth it to the nearby farmers. It’s so odd that the church was there in the first place. It seems so isolated now, it must have been more so in 1827.
You know there are people who explore abandoned homes that are seemingly reclaimed by nature. And then there are people who load up the truck with whatever they can carry. Allthough I dont see a chesterfeild with Lanky bits of Loose Change in the corner
Anything of value is well gone, the altar, the seats everything ❤
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I loved this place
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That looks like qhat we have here close to crops ..ground hog holes
It's probably badgers they call them badger sets, I've seen a few killed by cars they are big and cause a lot of damage
Rabbitts……
So sad a beautiful church and grave yard ieft to rot so sad .
This one must have been stunning, it's extremely sad, how I'd love this I'd gladly make this my forever home and tend to the graves too 💔
I’m wondering if that ‘ red marble’ on those headstones could be serpentine ?
Oh I'm not sure, sometimes the lichen can turn different cours too but you could be right
Have you done a video on Bridgetown Abbey near Castletownroche , it’s a fascinating ruin that we have to walk through to get to the river for salmon fishing, built by William Fitzhugh Roche ( I think) think it was a 13 th century Augustinian Monastery !
Where abouts is that Paul 🤔
Near Castletownroche which is not far from Ballyhooly. It’s a fabulous ruin with cloisters and lots still standing. Built because of its proximity to the river Blackwater and is just upstream from where the river Awbeg joins the Blackwater. When I’m fishing there I’m always imagining the monks catching salmon there to !
If you go walk through the Abbey and find the river about 100 yds behind it, there’s a huge limestone cliff where the river bends 🙂 I think it’s off the N72 road, google it but certainly worth a video 🙂
Just googled it, never heard of it but its Cork so that's maybe why,it's gorgeous and there's a few headstones too which is a bonus ❤❤
My son watched this and balked at your suggestion of turning it into a house. He said “who wants a house with a cemetery in the yard?”
Me!! 😂😂🙋🏼♀️
🤣🤣 we do, we do 🤭
Appears the church had a problem with swatters at one time. What a shame
Oh maybe, you could be correct with that, I never thought of that ❤
Sue,take your time & tread carefully. In the U.S. of A., and I believe in Ireland, as well, "Wynne" is pronounced "win", not "wine". You might want to double-check that for me.
You're probably right white devil, I've never seen the name before
@@SerenitySueGraveyards Honestly, please double-check. Wynne is generally recognized as an Irish family-name here in the States, & it's pronounced "Win", but I'm not sure about in Ireland.
hi sue you should vist oakvale graeyard in stradbally co laois.very its old
Thank you, I'll write it down ❤
@@SerenitySueGraveyards hope you do sue it is extremely old worth seeing thanks for the reply.theres another place too called ballyadams .old cemetery connected to the castle there its off the beaten track.
Such a shame, the condition of the church! Honestly, based on what you have told us in other vlogs, the church's roof should have been removed.
This place was for sale, so not sure if they will try and sell again
What a shameful tragedy! Such a beautiful place of worshipping Our God!
It is a shame, what astunning church ❤
So many cardboard pieces - it looks like perhaps someone was storing some stuff in cardboard boxes, which just came apart and then others came in and scattered the contents.
That's true 🤔
Couldn’t there be a history somewhere of this “ Church? Protestant? Catholic?
Any info I found is beneath the video in the description box xx
Sue plenty of fresh food for the rabbit they love dandelions for the white substance in the stem of the flower that is why he looked a bit fat plenty of food and all fresh
He's definitely well fed ❤
It's such a shame that could be converted into a nice house like they do around here
Wouldn't it make a fantastic house