Mayglass cemetery and church ruins

[@suepato74]

This little cemetery sure had some interesting stories. Loved It! Thank You.

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Thanks Susan ❤️🇮🇪🍀

[@sinead187]

Thank you Sue for the history lesson on Bagnel Harvey RIP. Cruel times back then. The church ruin is very pretty, and some fab old headstones too. RIP Monty and your little dog together forever 🙏

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

I was like a child looking in at the lead coffins, so wished I could have seen more, poor monty and her dog, she didn't get her sea burial after all, even though they tried, her body came back to shore ❤️🇮🇪🍀

[@lizstevenson7801]

Thank you Sue, that was so interesting. The dates on the headstones really go way back in time, the Church was lovely to see too. I really loved you telling us the history of some of the people buried there, even though they were a brutal lot back in those times. Stay safe 💕🇦🇺

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Very hard times in Ireland for sure, glad things have moved on so much 🇮🇪🍀❤️

[@Monica_Baja]

I loved all the history and local tales that you've shared in this one. Thank you so much for always taking the time to read, and clean the stones so you can read, the names of people who've been forgotten with time. 👍🏼🌹💌

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Thank you, let's hope when we read them, they are never forgotten ❤️🍀🇮🇪

[@FacesoftheForgotten]

Outstanding episode, especially the chapel ruins and great showing the picture of the barrister and the castle, great story. That makes these episodes really stand out even more.

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Thanks Ron, appreciate it 🍀❤️🇮🇪

[@nadiabrook7871]

What a FASCINATING little cemetery with its VERY interesting stories!! Love the sheep in the background!! They're a reminder that, next to a cemetery, life still goes on!! Take care and stay safe everyone!! XXXX

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Absolutely life does go on, the lady I was chatting to had just buried her husband but she had a big smile on her face while she talked and laughed about the stories ❤️🇮🇪🍀

[@nadiabrook7871]

@@SerenitySueGraveyards Wow!! AMAZING lady!! By the way, I LOVE the story of the man that buried his leg!! XXXX

[@cathys7087]

I absolutely love the sheep! Thanks for sharing the stories, Sue.

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Very welcome Cathy, sheep are all over the place here ❤️🍀🇮🇪

[@michaelbedinger4121]

Beautiful graveyard and church ruins. Thank you, for another great tour.

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Thanks Michael

[@canadiankerry3996]

Love your channel!!!!!🇨🇦🇨🇦💕

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Thank you so much ❤️🍀🇮🇪

[@claudiadesoto2378]

From Indiana,USA .love the channel 👍

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Thank you!! ❤️🍀🇮🇪

[@deirdresullivan2177]

Some great stories and I just can't help laughing at your man burying his leg in advance!! Enjoyed this today ☺

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Oh when I heard the story I was totally amazed, never heard the likes in my life, 🤔❤️🇮🇪🍀

[@Teddyk5555]

@@SerenitySueGraveyards The man is my uncle. What is one to do with your leg when its amputated, its not as if you just throw it away.

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Hi Ken, It's a cool story to have, fair play to him, never heard such a thing in my life

[@jonibarger3147]

I love the peace and tranquility there. Great video Sue. Its bbeautiful and so serene.

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Thanks Joni

[@melcornes6878]

Thank u Sue for preserving our Irish history 💚

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Thanks so much Mel ❤️🍀🇮🇪

[@monicahyland8641]

That’s beautiful, I’m binge watching your videos while I’m in the office. I’m new to the Channel and I enjoy your content. I appreciate you taking me on the journey.

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Why thank you Monica, appreciate you here ❤

[@tomhirons7475]

wow what a great find the lead coffins, I myself at a young age was in Derry in the troubles, it was 1988 i was 18, i served in the royal marines for 16 yrs. when i mentioned Ballycastle in Co Mayo where the unknown soldier was, there is /was a barracks there for british soldiers, and of course many died of illness etc, i am trying to find out where they are buried and wow its difficult. Why your videos are great, many bad things happened and over here in England our cemetarys are very much like yours. I am sorry for the man who died at british hands, crazy times, crazy ways, but rest in peace to that man, and allways a great video Sue, and its allways good to learn something also, allways keep this up, i watch so much now i can bloody tell when your nail polish is a diff colour LOL, peace out Tom xxx

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

I'll have to try find that soldier, very interesting and sad it's so hard to find information too, thanks Tom, appreciate it ❤️🇮🇪🍀

[@tomhirons7475]

@@SerenitySueGraveyards just let me know when you want the info i have and ill email it to you xxx

[@tomhirons7475]

start by googling the anadora star, that was the ship. xxx

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Thanks Tom

[@tomhirons7475]

many civilian deaths also, interned italians, many buried in ireland, very tragic xxx

[@johncook8720]

Hey Sue, i very much enjoyed the video- i always fascinates me, these tours of the older graveyards n churches. You give a great history lesson too! The older headstones are amazing to look at, they have such an aura about them, n you can tell right away theyre very old. You do great job of reading the text of the names and dates off the headstones too, better than i could do lol!

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Ahh thanks John, I often get stuck on names either because I can't read the pronunciation or just very hard to read, I really enjoy it ❤️🇮🇪🍀

[@johncook8720]

@@SerenitySueGraveyards Any gravestones (but esp really older ones) I wonder abt the person and what life mustve been like for them. The stones themselves have been exposed to the elements for so long. I didnt realize the white-ish material we were seeing on them was fungus...wow. It can be curious how the descriptions on so many say "departed this life....". They were so meticulous back then, re: this. T-storms here today, I hope youre well, n lookin fwd to your next video!

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Hi John yes I've noticed that too "who departed this life", also I've seen on the older headstones that if they can't fit the writing going across, they often finished the writing on the next line, makes it hard to read but I've noticed it so much now I've learned to follow on the word, so say the name "William" if they don't fit it all it can say, "Will" and then "iam" at the start of the next line underneath, if you know what I mean. Also a lot of the older ones have a lovely message wrote at the bottom, usually something from the bible, or often it might say, he was a noble man, loved by all, little things like that, makes finding them very special❤️🇮🇪🍀

[@denisedarrell6828]

Thank you so much that was so very interesting (horrible about Mr. Henry though). The torch comes in handy doesn't it? Loved the church arches. The newer section was so beautiful too, loved the stone outlines around the plots. ❤❤❤

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Yes very interesting, I loved the lead coffins, very spooky ❤️🍀🇮🇪

[@rezaardiansyah9144]

Nice video. 👍👍

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Thank you ❤️🍀🇮🇪

[@kkormanik]

What a very, very old cemetery. Pity it has never been kept up but I know the towns are small villages and out in the byways. Good video Sue.

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Thanks very much, I loved this one, especially the little look at the lead coffin❤️🇮🇪🍀

[@cjmcdowell1904]

I love the sheep 🐑 bleating in the backyard So beautiful Ireland 🇮🇪 is ♥️

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Thank you, yes it's fantastic, pity about the weather ❤️🍀🇮🇪

[@elizabethgrogan8553]

I believe Harvey was one of several leaders of the uprising who were hanged over a few days. They were all decapitated, their bodies thrown in the Slaney river and British soldiers kicked their heads around the streets. The British were brutal. There's a ballad, 'Kelly the boys from Killane', in which Harvey is mentioned. He is a hero. That cemetery is like a lesson in Wexford and Irish history. I love the story of the buried leg and that somebody put flowers on the grave.

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Thanks Elizabeth, the stories are simply amazing, heroes gone but not forgotten in my opinion, yes several people were brutally killed that day and many more, different days but all met terrible deaths, like fr. Murphy he too is remembered in an Irish song, I've never heard the one you mention but I will certainly look it up now, thanks a million ❤️🍀🇮🇪

[@johncook8720]

@@SerenitySueGraveyards I looked up "Kelly the Boys from Killane" ballad, it was fascinating reading. This is a period of history I only knew very generally about, and wasnt familiar with any details. The level of cruelty and violence back then never fails to amaze me, it hadda be brutal indeed. We see some of the really old graves from back then n think "if these ppl could talk"....the stories they'd tell. Loving these vids! :)

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Thanks John 🍀🇮🇪❤️

[@christineingram55]

What an great and interesting walk around this fascinating cemetery.The headstone with all the names on and only one date .I think you will find it was a house fire as most are family.?in those days homes were still lit with candles,oil lamps or gas.None of these were very safe and would often cause house fires so would explain that one..I think it’s an awful story about the Lawyer.No body deserves that to happen to them it’s terrible and unfair.I am pleased he got a burial in the end if what they claim is a fact at least it’s dignified. The story about the leg and the dog was rather strange but nice too.I just had a thought .You know you say there’s small stones here and there.It was common practice years ago to mark a grave with a headstone and a foot stone.It was like giving a boundary to the grave so people would not walk over the graves.Another beautiful place today and nice to see the sheep so close too..Thank you for the walk around.Love n Light 🥰

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Thank you Christine, unfortunately the 1798 was ruthless and many were tarred hung and quartered, heads then chopped from the body and put on spikes to show the town they meant business. We still had many who fought and won different battles, thankfully we have plenty of recorded history on this if we look hard enough🍀🇮🇪❤️I think your right about the family too, definitely some tragic event that took their lives, very sad ❤️

[@purplehaze5977]

Thank you I really enjoyed this one

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Thanks Hazel

[@debroahisaacs2452]

Nice walk and Irish history. When convicted lie or truth no fooling around for justice😮 Ihope when they restore whats left of the church they will keep the grounds cleared. Always so enjoy your videos. You do such the best at them. Thanx❤😊❤😊

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Thanks Deborah, unfortunately this church is still exactly as it was, no work done, what a shame

[@purplehaze5977]

God lovely cemetery over there my grandparent's are from Ireland xx

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Ahh really what's the surname? ❤️🍀🇮🇪

[@rarespiritwendy]

What an awful way to go…Bagnel Harvey, quite a nice looking man. Love to learn the history, ty! I’ve been binge watching and loving it!

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Thanks WendyY, the rebellion was an awful time anyone caught for being a rebel met an awful death, most had their heads removed and placed on pikes and displayed for every to see ❤❤

[@maryali336]

Love the storytelling

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Thanks so much 🙏 💓

[@denised7147]

This video was really interesting and I love the church. I know it’s Fenced off for safety but really would’ve been interesting to see it up close

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

I tried but totally closed off, I'd say it will eventually fall, which is very sad 🍀🇮🇪❤️

[@lindaball6714]

Wow this one was amazing story, terribly sad and brutal but great story !

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Ireland was brutal back then hung and quartered, how awful ❤

[@JoeMotionVideos82]

What an amazing location! Here's a serious question, have you ever heard a banshees scream? I've spoken to some of your countrymen here in the states that have claimed to have heard it. I have found that pouring water on a headstone makes them easier to read

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Never heard her scream thank god as folklore says it means a death coming soon 😱❤️🍀🇮🇪

[@ronaldpeter3129]

Intriguing story.

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Thanks 🇮🇪🍀❤️

[@stephaniehand503]

thank you

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Very welcome 🍀🇮🇪❤️

[@purplehaze5977]

You will have to get touch like Ron it's amazing

[@JohnSmith-jf3us]

She is trying to copy him!

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

I got advice from the man himself, torch was used to look inside a crypt, so yes got ideas from Ron but I do my own thing, thanks for watching John 👍

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Ron has been a great mentor, so your comment is actually a compliment ❤️🇮🇪🍀

[@kimglass4851]

Awesome video but why lead coffins?? What were they supposed to do?

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

I've no idea to be honest but I did read that it preserves the body better, I also heard that if you open a lead coffin and the person died of a disease, well the disease stays in the coffin and when opened its very likely you could catch that disease. So you have to have a hazmat suit on for protection, crazy ain't it 🤔🍀🇮🇪❤️

[@benbaker2965]

This was a really great. I am from the U.S. and I am curious why so many graveyards have church ruins? Or just why so many churches in ruins?

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Most villages have them and a lot are local to me known as the Norman way, most were left I feel due to newer churches being built for larger communities ❤️🍀🇮🇪

[@ianharvey465]

my Great grandfather x6 a tragic man.

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Really? Wow!! it was a pretty terrible story God help him, I was lucky to take a peep at the coffins, I was talking to a lady that day and that crypt was open years ago, her and her friends would play beside the coffins, I suppose they didn't understand what they were actually playing beside, it's great you know the history of your family ❤

[@ianharvey465]

@@SerenitySueGraveyards he couldn't marry the woman who bore his children and so they were bastards and couldn't inherit. William and James were sent to Scotland to school, Betty Smith to her sister in England but she had issues as BB outlines in his letter to his brother that I found at the National Library in Dublin. In any event he was thrust into the command, the Reluctant General, totally unprepared or trained for the strategy or war, nor the horrors that were to follow. He was something of a lost soul in my opinion and from my reading and research. Denied love, he married an "acceptable" woman so he could comply with his father's will and inherit the estate. He tried desperately to do the right thing, both for Ireland even though he was a protestant and land owner and for his children.

[@ianharvey465]

we visited Mayglas in 2015 and went to the church there. It wasn't fenced off at the time. We also met Maeve Davison and toured Bargy. It was lovely and she was a gracious host whom Helen Skrine introduced us to. BTW BB Harvey's grandson William sired five kids, one of whom, John went on to India with the East India Company in 1839 and died there. Successive generations stayed and kept the line going and then left around 1965 having settled in what became Pakistan. By then the bloodline was mixed, AngloIndian. My dad was born in Lahore and came to England to study engineering at John Brown's in Glasgow. He met my mother in Devon and the rest is history. We ended up in Canada with I live with my two kids. You've done a service here, lovely video. Keeping the stories of history alive is a wonderful and noble thing you do. Thank you.

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Thank you so much, that's awesome you know the family tree ❤

[@sandrabugler9813]

I love how they have the plots sectioned off and filled with pebbles. They don't do that in America. I looks so neat.

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Thanks Sandra ❤️

[@larryborkstrom3580]

That's how horrible how he died but at least he died on his feet rather live on his knees

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Thanks Larry, very true ❤️🍀🇮🇪

[@purplehaze5977]

Omg that so nice that they gave him a stone

[@brendagarnder9758]

THANK U SUE! U DID GREAT! GOOD SOUND!🛐🤭✝️🇺🇲

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Thanks Brenda🍀🇮🇪❤️

[@brendagarnder9758]

@@SerenitySueGraveyards UR WELCOME!✝️🤭🛐🇺🇲

[@purplehaze5977]

So sad only some lived for a while x

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Yes very sad, RIP to them all 🇮🇪❤️🍀

[@paulhoye9680]

I love how they carved the numbers and letters in the 18th century...some words can be primitive too..rare to find stones from the seventeenth century..in my experience.

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

It is, I've been lucky to find a few now on my travels

[@paulhoye9680]

@@SerenitySueGraveyards I hope I can see them in one of your uploads..

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

I have loafs of them here Paul, lots around the 1700s and I've even found a 1622 headstone ❤

[@paulhoye9680]

@@SerenitySueGraveyards wow 1622..king charles1 ..that would be interesting

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/baW2Z6N-aJ2XgqM this is one of the 1600s gravestones

[@joseleswopes4396]

That's Horrible what happened to him 🙏💕‼️

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

It was brutal back then, lots died during the 1798 rebellion and most were hung and quartered then their heads put up on pikes to display them, horrible

[@cathys7087]

I do wonder if the man with the amputated leg left the flowers 💐

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

I'm not sure, I kinda hope he did as very strange if someone else did? Thanks for watching ❤️🇮🇪🍀

[@pompeiranch7883]

It seems the people were much more long lived in Ireland than the average age in America.

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

I'm always surprised by their ages, especially with the lack of medicens like we have today ❤️🍀🇮🇪

[@purplehaze5977]

Lots of browns x

[@grammylove7144]

Hi

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

Hi 🇮🇪🍀❤️

[@purplehaze5977]

Shame you can't read some of the tombs x

[@SerenitySueGraveyards]

I bought a torch ages ago but only thought of it while looking in the crypt, it does help to read some but time has not been kind to a lot of them 🍀🇮🇪❤️