Irish Monuments Are Being Vandalized On A Scale Never Seen Before!
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Passage tombs in Ireland are being vandalized and even though it’s being reported and they’re trying to stop the vandalisms, they’re still ongoing and they’re ruining ancient heritage that we can never get back.
Carvings are being destroyed by graffiti, people are digging inside tombs in hopes to find treasures and the level of disrespect some people are showing for their ancestors oldest pieces of tangible history is just mind blowing.
The most extensive damage caused in 2020 was to the Neolithic tombs in County Sligo which is home to 75 Passage tombs, almost 1/3 of the estimated 240 passage tombs in Ireland.
On the Ballygawley mountains the Passage tomb known as The House of the Witch Cailleach a’ Bheara got vandalized by people in search for hidden chambers or treasures and so much material had been removed from the cairn that an adult can now lie in the hole that’s been created.
These people are looking for these things under the misguided notion that valuables can be found, meanwhile all there is to be found is ancient ash and maybe some pieces of bone.
Some people actually believe there are valuable gold or bronze objects hidden away in these ancient monuments, but what these people forget is that these ancient monuments predate the use of metals as they are more than 5000 years old.
The department of Heritage had the National Monuments Service inspect the passage tomb in Ballygawley after it had suffered damage in 2019, unfortunately these latest reports show that there has been further damage done to the site, which mind you is in a very remote location.
On top of the Knocknarea mountain sits Queen Maebh’s Cairn, which has been suffering ongoing damage, including the removal of stones from the base of the monument and what’s being called “Walking Scars” from people walking on top of the Cairn.
The Carrowkeel Cairns have suffered a lot of walking scars damage as well, these tombs are much smaller and a lot more fragile than Queen Maebdh’s Cairn.
A couple even chose to stay inside one of the tombs a few years ago, with straw bedding leaving tins of beans and their washing line on site.
Unfortunately the walking scars aren’t the only vandalism that Carrowkeel has to deal with, there has been a significant increase of people scratching their names onto the monuments.
This can potentially cause damage to the megalithic artworks that have been there for over 5000 years.
The complete lack of respect is just absolutely staggering to me, who on earth would do such things to these ancient monuments..
But even this is not the true scope of the damage being done at Carrowkeel, people are actually stealing quartz from the cairns to sell online. For a freaking quick buck!
During an inspection of the Carrownamaddoo and Castle Dargan passage tomb in Ballygawley they discovered that the cairn had been seriously damaged during an illegal excavation.
Neil Jackman an archaeologist said; “Whoever is carrying this out needs to stop, this is not an excavation, it is ransacking and desecration of a tomb and our shared heritage. All there could possibly be is small stone tools, broken fragments of pottery and human remains”.
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Well done for raising awareness of this. It’s not a nice thing to report but very important. :(
Thank you, i hated having to make this video but it had to be done
@Saif Khan vandalism is bad and not an enjoyable video to make.
@@AncientArchitects Aye. Very unhappy Mark here. I literally am steaming Matt.
Yeah BS seriously upsets super disrespectful and defiled that are holy sites.
Absolutely heartbreaking. Thank you for putting this out there. This vandalism needs to stop 🥺😡😪
Please share far and wide, change needs to happen fast..
What a sad state of affairs when people destroy their own heritage knowingly and with impunity! The fact that these amazing monuments could survive for over 10,000 years and only recently fall victim to MORONS speaks volumes about who and what we are in this generation. Thanks Kayleigh, for bringing this to our attention, I hope those responsible get what they deserve and that more people will be on the lookout for these idiots in the future….
Fingers crossed changes can be made. I don't want Ireland to lose more heritage, i still haven't seen any with my own eyes 😭
but what are they rebelling against? IF these ancient structures are so great, why not make more of them? Why leave them to rot in a field if they are so wonderful? put them everywhere, make subdivisions and towns and cities full of them. Reopen the ancient underground tunnel networks, why block them up and only let evil people use them as secret bases?
It's a problem because the Irish government doesn't preserve and protect these monuments, they don't make it mandatory to learn about it on school and kids have no clue
It is an erasure of your history by Karl
Who says it's the Irish doing it. Besides, it doesn't matter who or where. These are Irish pyramids but it's disrespectful anywhere.
It is staggering how little respect some people have. Thanks for bringing this to everyone's attention. Ancient history is human history, it belongs to all of us and should be treated with respect.
I absolutely agree with you 🙂
@@HistoryWithKayleigh As far as which act of vandalism is the most vile, I'd say any and all vandalism to these sites is equally vile, however some acts were more destructive than others. They're all equally vile since they are all utterly disrespectful not only to the sites, but to the people who built them and to everyone living today.
I feel the exact same way, although Ben and Kirstie there are taking the cake
What’s staggering is we all say that knowing the vandalism that has happened to other continents..
I live in Sligo and have always had great respect and love for Irish mythology and our ancient heritage sites. As a kid my dad and mom always told me when walking up to queen meaves tomb on knocknarea to bring up a stone and place it on the site as a sign of respect, not to do so would bring bad luck. It angers and saddens me to think someone would do this to our historic sites.
It's incredibly sad and I'm beyond words as to what's currently happening..
I live in the netherlands and am not able to help besides trying to spread the word and raise awareness
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It is disrespectful to take from Hawaiian volcanoes, ie Mauna Kea, for the same reason. People also bring offerings there as a sign of respect.
@@HistoryWithKayleigh And yet, you are making a difference. Thank you.
They need to setup some trail cameras around the access points to these sites and catch these fools. Little by little the word will get out that the people that do this are being caught and the law of reward vs risk will hopefully win out.
They do..
or just pay a guard, cameras only catch the people after the damage is done, a guard prevents the damage from happening.
Thanks for covering this. I'm from Ireland but had no idea of the scale of this. I had to pause the video and go out for a walk in frustration. When I was a kid we called these megalithic ruins 'fairy forts'. My grandmother told me never to enter them or the fairies would come after you. Superstition may be silly but it preserved these monuments.
Superstition is what kept them in good condition for so long ♥️
People who hate their own culture or come from another culture are doing this, the invading colonizers your gov is letting in.
Not too long ago this would have been inconceivable. Heartbreaking.
It's terrible 😔
when you import people with no roots in the nation, you end up with people without regard for roots of that nation.
Not too long ago a lot of things were inconceivable.
I wasn't aware of this and I'm from Ireland .. thanks so much for raising awareness of this
❤️ I'm just so sorry it's been going on.. i hated making this video but I felt it was my duty to share the information 😔
It angers me too when people scratch of spray paint any rock or tree. I live in South Africa where there is many areas in the mountains where ancient Khoisan rock paintings can be found, and we do get occasional vandalism of these at some more easily accessible areas.
Crazy how people can't just look without feeling the urge to leave a mark.
It's a terrible sad thing 😟
Ironically that's the exact reason for those monuments to exist.
Having lived in Sligo for the last 51 years it is disheartening to see such blatant disregard for our national heritage. The irish people in general have had great respect for these monuments and apart from walking over them have for the most part left them alone. Twenty years ago you could visit these sites and 9 times out of 10 you'd spend hours there by yourself. Nowadays with the rise in peoples desire to explore and the influx of residents from other parts of the EU these sites are becoming 'the' place to visit, and with no real supervision and plenty of time alone and unseen certain people as you have shown are destroying them. Thank you for highlighting this issue, i can only hope that with enough pressure we can stop the heedless destruction of these treasures of culture. Regards P.
I was at Maeve's tomb in 2014. Incredible place!
THIS HAS TO STOP!
It does 😟
I've seen the same in neolithic hunting grounds near where I live. Its a tragedy
It absolutely is 😥
I was born in England but all my family are Irish. I had no idea this was happening so thank you for raising awareness of this. As a history nut this infuriates me just as much as you. I won't say anymore or i might start swearing as well.
Yeah it's best to keep our anger in control as that is the reaction they seem to want, but i couldn't stay silent while everyone else is.
Ireland always held a special place for me when it comes to ancient history
They will all disappear. When I Was in Ireland I literally couldn't believe all these dark ages monuments just out in the open, hundreds of tourists touching them etc. Ireland is a wonderland for the Dark Ages archaeologist.
It's sad, i just hope they won't get destroyed and ruined more by human being dumb 🙈
Since these monuments are a part of our common heritage, vandalizing them is an insult to *EVERYONE.*
This is some heavy and important work you are doing bringing "awareness" to the problem. Hopefully the locals can help also as they have in South America as other historical sites. Good job!
Thank you, it's the least i can do to help 🙂
Thank you so much for making this video! It is sorely needed, and I applaud your courage in pointing out these travesties. It is truly sad to see this level of vandalism, yet it also points to a clear lack of the passing on of cultural heritage in Ireland in those places where it most counts. The fact that, at the very least, the offspring of these vandals will have been deprived of the opportunity to view these sites in as pristine a state as possible, should be enough to deter them from these acts-but clearly isn't-is a testament to some kind of breakdown of culture and education. I'm sure that the majority of Irish people would take a very dim view of such behaviour, but I do think it's the responsibility of any society to be able to install a sense of historic, generational continuity among its people. I deeply love Ireland and its history, and I deep hope they can sort this to everyone's benefit. At any rate, I (and I'm sure many others) share your disbelief and outrage. Wonderful video, as always. Cheers !
Thank you 🤗
Depressing. People are idiots... :-( Still, thank you for pointing this out.
It got me thinking: People being idiots is neither a new phenomenon nor limited to the Island of Ireland. Are there interesting historic examples of sites being vandalised? Of course tomb robbing is very common. Off the top of my head, the viking graffiti in Maes Howe on Orkney are nothing more than vandalism, even if - from todays point of view - it is highly fascinating (and it's literary quality is about on par with "Kirstie was here"). Are there more cases of historic vandalism?
There is vandalism going on in many places, Spain is dealing with quite a bit.
But none of the places come close to what's happening in Ireland at the moment.
Littering is incredibly disrespectful but it doesn't do much besides leave a mess, in Ireland monuments are being purposefully defaced, vandalized, burned and more 😟
Idiots do live everywhere unfortunately 🙃
I had no idea about the vandalism. Thanks for enlightening me. I hope things get better there soon.
Fingers crossed 🤞
Thank you for doing this, this is my homeland and my people have lived there for 5000 years
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Hey Kayleigh ... this was a much need video, ancient & modern monuments have been vandalised for years around my local area (Lancashire, UK) .... brass /copper / bronze plates removed from various historic monuments (even garden sundials) to be melted down for scrap ... the damaged monuments you highlighted in Ireland was appalling and I can't belive the time, effort and lengths some people go to for so called "fun" ... You've probably seen over the last 14 months in the UK the amount is statues torn down and defaced at so called protests whilst the police are stood meters away, very few prosecutions made (makes my blood boil) ... once again another great and needed video.
It's such a shame people desecrate and vandalize ancient cites.. just makes my soul cry 😭
@@HistoryWithKayleigh wow, you're on the ball with your reply's ! .... I was trying to put my first comment to the music of a famous song that you may have heard a few times !! 😂 but gave up (perhaps next time !😂) ... great to see you're so passionate about history and it's preservation ... I'll share this video where appropriate, if that's OK .
Always feel free to share 🤗
Yep, they're trying to destroy the western legacy and heritage to make room for the newcomers, the demographic that is rising fast and colonizing us.
Enjoyable or not it is important to raise awareness and support the conservation of these sites!
This is such a shame. The sad part is it is happening all over. Some people are just ignorant
I suppose public lashing should return as the saying goes ‘spare the rod spoil the child’!
Nice reporting Kayleigh !! The young generation think they can do anything they want ! It's happening all over the world ! I'd just as soon put those kind of people down and good RIDDENS to them !! The World won't miss them !! Makes me want to swear too !!!
I want to do worse than swear my friend.
Thanks for showing us what's been going on. People want to destroy the past instead of learning from it. We know how that ends up.
I'm so mad watching this. People these days have no respect. I'd love to get my hands on them.
Some people really have no respect.. but you shouldn't get your hands on them as you don't deserve to be punished for their actions 😉
@@HistoryWithKayleigh I know you are right, still, grrrr....😂
A good fence makes great neighbors... Stonehenge has security fencing in place.
Rather than chiseling their name into someone else's work, if those people want to be remembered they should build something themselves.
You know you see people destroying all sorts of monuments now and they don't understand history it's truly a shame
It really is, i hated making this video but i felt it was necessary
@@HistoryWithKayleigh really glad that you did make the video because it needed to be told
Unfortunately such problems are not limited to Ireland, but an affect any monument that is not guarded 24/7. Personally I have never understood the need to leave a mark to prove you have been somewhere, and the though of deliberately damaging a historic landmark is sickening.
They had a partial answer to this at one place that I went to in China a few years ago, close to the monument (a Buddhist temple) they had built a small brick shelter, and they actually asked people to write their names, date and where they came from on the interior white walls or ceiling of this building. From what we were told, once possible spaces have been written on, they are planning to build another such building and keep the first as a record of those that have been there. The though is that if people have an official place to leave their mark, they should not be tempted to deface the actual monument, and who knows in a thousand years these building might be a tourist attraction in their own right.
this is what we do with native american ruins here, I shudder to think how many US tourists are responsible for this. Still mostly local teens I bet.
Unfortunately, there are those who do not have any respect for these historical landmarks. There is no excuse for destroying something that so many generations have worked so hard to keep intact. It saddens my heart. Thank you for bringing attention to this. This is exactly how we can stop these things from happening in the first place.
I just hope i was able to spread awareness.. i can't do much else besides that
Seeing your reaction to this makes me respect and admire you even more. Thanks, dude
Thanks!
Lacquer Thinner will take off the spray paint very easily and the thinner evaporates into the air so it minimalizes the environmental damage of cleanup.
When I visited Ireland 20 years ago, the ancient sites had no fences, no turnstiles, no interpretive centers...it was just me and my guide books and ordnance survey maps. I thought it was wonderful. Ten years later most of these places were "upgraded" to provide parking and visitor facilities. I thought the charm of these sites was lost. Now, it appears some segment of the public has no respect for these unique places. What changed?
The proliferation of destructive behavior over the last several years is profoundly disturbing. When people destroy their own Heritage they are destroying themselves. Here in the United States, there has been destruction in our National Parks, people are driving crazy on the highways, and the shootings are absolutely out of control. Thank you for being a voice of sanity, Kayleigh.
Its done by people who have no legacy or heritage connected to the lands, and therefore want to destroy western heritage. The invading colonizers shouldn't have been let in and this wouldn't have happened.
I'm Irish. And I live in Germany. I just watched this and I am fu*king furious. What the hell Ireland? I can't believe it. I don't get it. NOBODY I know back home would do such a thing. I really... I'm flabbergasted.
It's such a shame.. but the Irish government doesn't seem to care much..
@@HistoryWithKayleigh Actually, I would say most do. I know Micheal Healy Ray would be frothing at the gums. (Nothing new there) I just don't get it.
This is very scandalous and so sad ...our history is priceless..
It's indeed priceless 😟
Sad people in this world. Good job telling everyone. 🙏🌺💐
Go Kayleigh Go, this information needs to be told and Thank You for giving resources for people to help the situation. More of that information needs to be given so people realize they can make a difference. It is such a shame because Irish history is just coming into its own on the internet and we know so little. I hope these vandals need to work off and repay what they have stolen from humanity !!!!
Bear traps 🪤 Catch the vandals with bear traps.
I agree!! We are always on the same page 🥰😍
Generally, I'm against trapping, however; this sounds like a good use of traps...big sharp teeth and a heavy , heavy, spring.
I'm not a violent person, but sadly, you just can't fix stupid. Put the fear of the gods in them, they'll respond.✌🏻🐱
@@HistoryWithKayleigh 😹 Hey the olympics has started, so we won’t AGREE if any Aussie team is up against you. But after that I’m all yours again 😻
@@PhoenixLyon I love everything in the universe, 💗 but I abhor stupidly too. Maybe just a trip wire that sets off a display that emulates an evil spirit to scare them off. Boo 👻
That's a deal 🥰
Omg!!! My great grand parents made those places. I’m in Australia.......
It's incredibly sad to see what's happening in Ireland 😥
@@HistoryWithKayleigh as I said I’m Australian now. As of the second fleet.
I’m part of this soil now. My father to great great grand parents (some further) are dust on this land now.
There is a new dreaming taking place here. It’s called the wirritjin(blackfellawhitefella dreaming). This is the end of the old dreaming.
This is the new dreaming. This will last 25,000 years or so.
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Thank you Kaleigh. It's not just limited to Ireland either...
Unfortunately it isn't 😔
Thanks Kayleigh!! David🇨🇦
Love this RUclips site! Thank you for sharing your knowledge of amazing and beautiful sites with history buffs like me. Truly appreciated!!!
Happy to hear that 🤗
I lived in the north of Ireland for several years. There were no antique shops or even second hand goods for sale. I noticed that old cars aren't scrapped, but are left to rot behind the home & newly built houses more often than not are built beside the decaying old house being left to rot. I blame the residual affects of Calvinism for this.
We also used to cross a river on ancient boulders weighing approximately 10 to 15 tonnes which were placed in a row as stepping stones. I looked on google earth a few years ago for this crossing & found that the boulders had been uprooted & left in a heap on the rivers banks. I enquired & discovered that the farmer tired of trespassers taking the short cut across his pasture had done it. The belief in fairies had previously preserved Irelands ancient site's. History isn't even taught in many schools nowadays.
In North East Derbyshire where I live, ancient site's fare worse than in Ireland. We can tell by the name's in the graffiti whence the problem has emanated. But then an old elderly colleague of mine when he'd been in the army, had carved his name on top of the great pyramid. In this respect; Vandalism seems almost natural. Part of our M.O.
It's so sad..
Thank you Kayleigh for posting your video , its seem the world has gone mad this is not just happening in Ireland its everywhere I am now living in Western Canada and now people are destroying statues burning churches for some reason they want to erase history it all so very sad. I come home to Ireland every year ( Ballymoney Co Antrim ) and it always gives me great pleasure to drive my friends around and show them the wonderful sites . Thanks again :)
You should get onto RTE the national broadcaster and see would they high light this needless distruction l am sure they would talk to you,l was not aware this problem was so large and thank you it takes a Dutch girl to point what we do not seem to notice.
I don't think they would like a nobody from the netherlands to broadcast anything 😂
This is depressing 😕 and is happening in my country too!
In Thailand someone damaged the 4 Face Buddha and Thais immediately killed him on site.
No charges filed. That’s Thai patriotic respect for its heritage and culture.
The vandal was angry at the the God for not answering a prayer.
Malicious vandalism should be perhaps a felony charge; that could go a long way to deter most petty ignoramuses. My first megalith was Malin head , Donegal in 1980; so few people knew it was there at the time ,so far remote it was surreal!
Charges only have an impact if there is a realistic risk of capture and detention. For that to happen there needs to be proper human observation of sites at risk, an appetite to arrest and a willingness to pursue for criminal activity.
We certainly don’t have that in the UK. Police numbers are cut beyond the bone, what police there are left don’t want to be saddled with the paperwork and we have a particular problem of faux-Traveller groups claiming racism if pursued for criminal activity.
@@StephenBoothUK That about sums it up .
Time for security cameras and security
Too bad it's so expensive and these monuments aren't on the UNESCO world heritage list so they aren't deemed as protected heritage..
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I live I Ireland I have not idea this was happening or how many things to see in Ireland thanks
Definitely check out your ancient heritage, it's richer than most countries 🤗
I can't stand vandalism. Where I live in west Texas, it is a semi-arid environment on the edge between vast mostly treeless flat plains to the north and falling off into hill country that stretches south and east. There is a rare valley a few miles away with a small reservoir that is surrounded by a forest of thousands of ancient Live Oak trees. The lake front was never sold out to real estate investors due to it's being situated above a rich vein of crude oil. Oil companies leased the area from the county for drilling, and the county gets royalties. So no one lives around this beautiful lake, and most all of the forest is on public property and accessible by public roads. With so little restriction, the place has become a magnet for both vandals and litter. The Live Oaks, many of them over 200 years old and tall as an eight story building, are now covered in graffiti paints and nestled amid bags of garbage and large debris of every kind. There are dumped mattresses, refrigerators, tires, et cetera... and empty beer cans/bottles all over. It is sickening. It's the city kids and city folk who are responsible for these trespasses. Conservative minded people respect the land and our ancient heritage... and they bring up their children to do likewise. I don't know what the answer is to remedy these atrocious acts by liberal cretins, but we need to stop them. Google "Sonora Cavern's Butterfly".. was a cave formation near here.. took untold thousands of years to form.. absolutely breathtaking.. before some punk kid hopped the barrier fence and tried ripping it from the cave wall. They never caught the person responsible, but they managed to break off only a wing and leave this natural treasure forever ruined for all else. I can't believe we are made to share the world with these fools. What's most disheartening is that they are practically unreachable. Preaching to them, setting good examples, nothing seems to move them to try to do better.
Anyway, I understand your frustration :) ? Btw- you're even hotter when you get all fired up like that... ;) xoxo ♡
Haha thanks
It's a shame people feel the need to vandalize.. 😔
Increased poverty and societal frustration causes this. Its a sad but constant problem only made worse by societal pressures making people restless.
Those people are demonstrating that they are among the lowest of low. Waste of space, really.
There's an ignorance to it. The majority of people just don't know anything about Ireland's ancient history.
If they did, they'd be in awe of it. Because the legends mix with reality the more you investigate it, and it really is rather cool
It really is!
western people have been systemically browbeaten psychologically to accept their cultural and demographic demise.
@5:45 I'm from there, it wasn't just the opening of the gates, but people started to have parties there, filling the place up with rubbish, taking loose stones and such. There are storage tunnels running around inside the walls making them hollow, those were used for toilets. Being from Donegal we blamed it on people from Derry, but that's local rivalry, the vandals were from everywhere. Just found your channel and watched your video on Doggerland, checking out stuff about my little island, enjoying your content.
Thank you, it's such a shame these sites are being disrespected and vandalized 😔
Many of them may have bragged about it on the internet, viewers should report such things when they see them.
Agreed
This REALLY ticks me off!!! I am Mcginness USA.
My heart is breaking seeing heritage vandalized...
@@HistoryWithKayleigh Even though my family has been in Ireland since the Bronze Age, I will probably never get to see them. But if I had that chance, I know that would feel my heart break. As it is I am torn up. But it doesn't matter whose heritage, these are great feats and accomplisments of a people, be it Irish or anywhere else. I can't even express my anger and angst at such barbaric behavior.
I am Italian and this is something I cannot understand.
I feel the same..
Very sad to find out about these mindless actions. Those responsible have to be made to pay for the damage! Shameless Lowlife.
It really is such a shame 😔
I’m boiling mad! Thanks for the informative video.
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Thank you Kaliegh for enlightening everyone about these desecrations. The act of scratching your name over ancient carvings is the worst. I loved the way you read those perpetrators "the riot act" it was cool... Sometimes you just got to get pissed...lol.
“Every generation, civilization is invaded by barbarians - we call them 'children'.”
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Diminishing resources and increased demand will make objectivists out of anyone and perhaps someday everyone.
“The pump don’t work ‘cause the vandals stole the handle” - Bob Dylan
It is quite a shame, i understand wanting to be able to go in and actually see these sites but they are so fragile. With all the technology available now, there are virtual walk through videos available that allows everyone to see inside. It's a safe way to be able to see inside without chance of damaging sites. The vandalization of the sites breaks my heart.
I feel the same way, i just hope it ends soon before more monuments get vandalized..
@@HistoryWithKayleigh I shared your video on my FB. Spreading awareness is a small thing I can do since I don't live in Ireland, however a couple of my friends do.
Thank you 🤗🥰
@@HistoryWithKayleigh not a problem at all. You are welcome!
Sad and disgusting...😢
Had a hard time clicking the thumbs up on this one (but I did). This is so sad.
Thanks man, sucks that it needs to be covered for sure
What the hell is wrong with some people. I can't get my head around why someone would do that. I wonder how they would feel if someone trashed their home.
Great work, this is everyone's responsibility. So sad, Coming from Ireland it's really surprising but there are vandals everywhere😭
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It's really sad
It represents a larger psyche change - govs dont care about our culture and heritage now that it offends the newcomers.
😕People are really losing their minds lately 😪
They are 😔
It's just a shame that folks have to vandalise things.
Agreed 😔
See the sad thing is that we were never told in schools much about these sites. So most ppl don't give a fuck about them and just see them as good drinking spots. And when you get young ppl getting drunk at these sites they end up smashing breaking or putting their name on it. It's a shame but that just the way it is. The schools really need to teach how important these sits are.
They really do 😔
It truly sucks when people have no respect for history. It’s all we have to tell whare we came from
There seems to be a sickness that has consumed much of our collective 'mind' which behaves like cancer cells on steroids.. One day someone will dig-up memories of the past that will reflect a time of mental suicide.. Perhaps then the behavior you are educating us about now will make some sort of sense in a bigger picture.. This was an important video to make thank you.
It was indeed important although i hate that i had to make it.. and I'm sad i haven't seen other creators talk about it 😔
This is awful news, thank you for bringing this up though, Kayleigh. Not only does it desecrate an irreplaceable site, it ruins enjoyment for those whom come after. NO ONE wants to see graffiti on an ancient site, its 1000 worse feeling than seeing human garbage in nature. It's depressing. I can't get the image of the spray paint out of my mind. Not even to mention the senseless digging, vandalism, trampling on. And worse, idk what the Irish can do, not every site can be secured like Stonehenge, and you can't MAKE people respect their own history, or others heritage. The ancients had some suitable punishments for site desecration , I am sure...
The places you show of the British Isles will have to be taken care of by multiple people. I imagine the people will be military police, regular police, a whole lot of people I can't think of now. Like the travel logs to places I would like to see such as Egypt (the Pyramids); Peru, the remains of huge blocks of stone that are now form the side of a building or a fence. That were made by people that lived thousands of years ago or even hundreds of thousands of years ago. Their things survived a Cataclysmic event; the people didn't.
Those places have people that lead you and your visitors are very controlled by people that will arrest you if you are not following their "menu". I am very surprised that the "British Iles" are not following suit. It is a good thing Kayleigh started complaining about their "Heritage" that people are destroying them.
Unfortunately, these actions are guided by belief systems that are being pushed by government, media and the education system. The same beliefs led, ultimately, to the cultural revolution in mainland China.
Those monuments will be around a lot longer than those who vandalised them. Older Irish people are superstitious enough to respect these sites so it’s obvious enough who’s doing the damage. Young people aren’t being taught to respect their elders so as a consequence don’t respect their heritage.
It's a real shame..
this makes my heart hurt 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
This is just appalling!
I feel the same way 😥
I'm from Meath and the hill of Tara is my favourite place in the world, during the summer months I'd go to the hill everyday to walk my dogs or go for a run. The majority of people that visit the site respect it but one day I arrived to see the standing stone was doused in black paint. These moronic cretins haven't the slightest comprehension of these sites or the damage they're doing. I now live quite close to An Grianan Aileach and I've seen much of the same here, clowns etching their names in stone etc. It's a total shame. Thank you for bringing this stuff to light anyway, hopefully you can educate and deter some.
to bad law wont allow tar and feather for these vandals
Continue to speak your mind and defend what needs defending we need more gatekeepers.
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I would think tourism would decrease as people like ancient sites wether they even visit the sites or not does not matter... it remains a draw and it should be protected to help protect Irish money-tourism.
Plus it is insane history that’s stood and been respected by thousands of generations...
I joined a few thousand people ago but must say , I am glade I came across it. And it is a disgrace. But without the average person finding these things out , we would never know. Keep up the stellar work. 😉😉✌️
Thank you, happy to have you along. & Sorry for the not so fun subject, but as someone very important in my life always said; sometimes we need to do something that's hard in hopes to make a change for the better 🙂
@@HistoryWithKayleigh you have more than made it up on the video , where you get Tung tied . But ran with it . I don't laugh much but you had me in stitches classic stuff . For that thank you. All good things come in time. 🤞👌✌️
I'm happy to hear that 🤭😆
@@HistoryWithKayleigh and very unusual. Thank you for taking the time to reply 😊😊👍
Always 🤗
I enjoy talking to the kind people who take the time to write me a comment 🥰
The only unenjoyable part of the video was seeing evidence of people's moronic behavior towards ancient sites. Your delivery was spot on as usual! Hopefully, the more people know about what's happening, the less it will happen.
normally i rather not get angry with stuff But this hits a place to close to my heart i'm part Irish
& my Irish Heritage is very important to me & my family i'm only a tiny bit Irish but is still very important
to me even if i wasn't part of The biological ancient family ....
i understand that younger people they do not care or they thought it will be amazing to write your name
on the stones of your ancestors for those could or do care but seriously do not know what their doing
is creating more harm or then good but no matter what is extremely important to a huge groups or just
overall greater sense of something else but not saying thus is okay far from it it's not okay at all i just
get the feel to possibly to a strong Punishment to a young person or groups of them or even younger that
could even go without effects on them simply meaning they didn't learn their lessons or didn't see point in it
or at least understand that did something that has a greater affect them in ways that not just young people
any age range really where i feel like their many things that make people do this kind of harm to ancient heritage
sites that is extremely dangerous! for one & well sigh some want to be Explores ancient monuments but
not realizing what they are doing is not helping finding more ancient history but creating more harm to them!
even if a good handful of people care about there heritage or don't want to hurt the ancient monuments but
some people in those situation don't understand the right steps to the exploring those sites or they think they
know better even or they simply do not care about it & want a fast Money Grab if they think theirs old ancient
Gold Objects or stuff like that to sale this is oddly one of the things that made me worry about went the world
situation with covid happened that people who are usually very busy extremely busy even with schooling
& there Long hours of there Jobs now having far more time on theirs hands or even really really needing extra
money because of those who are getting sick or not being able to get paying jobs & having extreme limits
has to finding ways get money is something i figured but this is sorta believable more hard to face cases
with at least reasons behind it but just marking name on tomb because your seriously Bored is not okay!
sigh i don't know i just feel like theirs got to be at least a possible ways to teach younger people or even the
older people that this is not okay but without going into one ear & out the other one like nothing happened or
worse it feeds the issues not help it? .... that putting some people jail for crimes for a few good months or less
may help in some big cases but it's not gonna fix all of this lack understanding or even just having the mind to
leave it alone if you don't care about those monuments & you don't care about history there are simply going
to be that way but i agree it's one thing to not be interested in any level it's go out of your way play around
with those sites! i feel like theirs a real need to teach a form of repast of the past that doesn't force it down
your throat & make a young person feel like why i should learn this who cares if a old people did something
that happened 1000's years ago?
Wow totally loving all the videos about the standing stones and all the stuff in Scotland, stone henge seems to get all the lime light,and there seems to be way mare significant stuff here in Scotland.
Ireland is filled with ancient megalithic sites 🥰
Truly sad.
It really is 😔
KAYLEIGH, THIS IS ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE, AS AN IRISH AMERICAN I HAD ALWAYS HOPED TO VISIT
SOME OF THE SITES WHICH HAVE BECOME VANDALIZED BY PEOPLE WHO DON'T CARE OF THE HISTORY OF THESE LOCATIONS!!!GARY BAILEY KING OF DARKNESS AND GOD OF THUNDER AND LIGHTNING I AM SO SORRY FOR THESE SITES AND IT SICKENS ME
it's bizarre how a person has enough cognition to broadly understand that these sites are significant, hence they'd take time out of their day to visit them, then at the same time seem to think of themselves as such an exception to the untold numbers of people that have also visited the past 5000 years, that they are totally OK to intentionally deface and desecrate it. It's both brain drooling stupidity and unfathomable amounts of narcissism.
What the heck is wrong with people
I wish we knew 😔
The vandalism is conducted by the UK government. They have already looted almost every ancient monument in Sri Lanka too. The government or other groups supported by the government carry out the destruction.
Post-Modern fools in Europe, not just in the New World. Thank you for the info.
Unfortunately they're everywhere 😟