1000AD Viking Watch Tower

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Ponderings of an Irish Presbyterian

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@tacraling 2 ай бұрын

It's always great to see historic structures being so well looked after. Excellent video. 👍🙂

@PonderingsofIrishPresbyterian 2 ай бұрын

@@tacraling indeed the best structure like this for maybe 100 miles!

@sparkosone 2 ай бұрын

Good stuff nice to see some local history, Ireland has so much history much of which is undiscovered 👍

@PonderingsofIrishPresbyterian 2 ай бұрын

@@sparkosone trying to share and discover one video at a time.

@chrisholmes1736 2 ай бұрын

Fascinating. Northern Ireland is full of amazing stuff.

@PonderingsofIrishPresbyterian 2 ай бұрын

@@chrisholmes1736 it never ceases to amaze :D

@AirdrieoniansFC 2 ай бұрын

Thoroughly enjoyed your video. Amazing structure, well built, well maintained. Fascinating stuff.

@PonderingsofIrishPresbyterian 2 ай бұрын

@@AirdrieoniansFC glad you enjoyed it. Make sure to subscribe to follow along the channel for more 👍

@edwardkingthompson 2 ай бұрын

The preservation is very impressive, but I like that there is Ivy growing up the side of it. Shows its age and that it's in harmony with nature.

@joanmatchett8100 2 ай бұрын

Ivy is a nightmare, it's in my back garden, doesn't matter how far it's cut back, it comes back every time.

@jaculton2641 2 ай бұрын

You need to keep cutting it to the bottom. Keep at it. It weakens the plant and it will die. Easy on this building. More time consuming where it's multiple rooted. But it will go. It's pretty much weedkiller resistant. Diesel and weedkiller works great but you don't want that. Agent Orange!

@Gigi51 2 ай бұрын

What a beautiful video 🎉very ancient this is a great monument the entire place is very incredible 🎉good footage and from the view point you showed thank you for sharing this and yes something like this is definitely to far from me I’m in California a town called Bakersfield nothing like this here I like your channel very much 😂❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉thanks again

@PonderingsofIrishPresbyterian 2 ай бұрын

@@Gigi51 brilliant thank you for your feedback! Please do subscribe to follow along for more 😊

@Gigi51 2 ай бұрын

@@PonderingsofIrishPresbyterian I am definitely subscribed. It’s very good thank you very much. You have a nice Monday.

@Gigi51 2 ай бұрын

@@PonderingsofIrishPresbyterian I am definitely subscribed. It’s very good thank you very much. You have a nice Monday.

@janechamblesswright119 2 ай бұрын

What an excellent thing this is - and in pretty good nick, too. Such a peculiar structure to build - nothing but a couple of floors and a lot of steps which lead up to nowhere? If somebody had a mind to invade your village and you found yourself running up the steps with nowhere to go when you reached the top? No thankyou. Those Viking lads were no fun at all…. Thanks for the tour!

@PonderingsofIrishPresbyterian 2 ай бұрын

@@janechamblesswright119 there would have been spiral wooden stairs and timber floors inside the tower with perhaps a structure around it. Great insight into running up the stairs with no where to go 😆

@mikie123 2 ай бұрын

Fascinating. Well preserved. I'd hate to be stuck at the top while a Viking raid was happening. There must've been a secret chamber built into the staircase to hide. Otherwise you'd be a sitting duck

@PonderingsofIrishPresbyterian 2 ай бұрын

@@mikie123 yep I’d be hiding in the ditch once I saw them 😂 Thanks for your support. Please do subscribe to the channel for more!

@bugler75 2 ай бұрын

I’m just back from a walk with my wife. We live in the NE of France where she is from. We were just speaking about the remains of a similar tower, deep in a forest beside our village. We were thinking about the same towers across Ireland and how it would have part of a wooden fort. Just as the one here was. Then to come home to see your video uploaded 😊 Great to see one intact again! Fortunately we get back to Norn Iron often and this one is only about 40 minutes away from my home town. God bless, Ian

@PonderingsofIrishPresbyterian 2 ай бұрын

@@bugler75 Hi Ian - great story! Great timing by me 😚 There is another Round Tower (though not in as good a condition as this) outside Newcastle in Maghera - I videoed it last December. During Covid, we went on holiday down to Wicklow and saw the tower at Glendalough. Another one apparently is at Devenish outside Fermanagh which I would like to see. Safe travels back to NI when you come.

@bugler75 2 ай бұрын

Thank you Sir, we love our history and your channel and Mark’s has given me plenty bof places to go and visit😊 Ta! Ian

@anthonywhelan5419 2 ай бұрын

I'm Irish Catholic but it was the Church of Ireland and Presbyterian church missionaries who were responsible for keeping the Irish language alive, particularly the written language. I'm sorry if you don't like that fact but it is true.

@PonderingsofIrishPresbyterian 2 ай бұрын

@@anthonywhelan5419 Hi Anthony. Thank you for your comment. You are 100% correct. In fact if you check out a previous video I did on Medieval Graveyard at Killaney in County Down, I commented on that exact topic. I myself cannot speak Irish Gaelic but I have no problem with it and would not be opposed to learn it. My own granny from Monaghan grew up fluent in it. Using it as a political football is sad. Please do subscribe to the channel to follow along for more!

@daravaughan2902 2 ай бұрын

The leaning tower of kilmacduagh

@PonderingsofIrishPresbyterian 2 ай бұрын

@@daravaughan2902 that one in Galway easily surpasses this one in Down. Make sure to subscribe to follow along!

@allybo1 2 ай бұрын

Have you been to Terrace Hill Garden , up the Hill from Minnowburn beside the Lagan ,Worth a Look

@PonderingsofIrishPresbyterian 2 ай бұрын

@@allybo1 to my shame have driven past hundreds of times but never done it. One for the list to take the wife. Thanks for your comment. Please do subscribe to the channel to follow along for more!