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Highland Paddy
Ireland
Приєднався 17 кві 2014
Hi! As a direct result of having way too much time on my hands I like to make videos of myself wandering aimlessly in the wilderness babbling incoherent nonsense into a camera. I used to do a lot oh hiking and hill walking in my younger days and was lucky enough to have a book published on hill walking in Donegal. The only difference between now and then is nowadays I bring a video camera and post the results on UA-cam, as opposed to when I started out and simply forced my friends to look through endless photos of rocks and stuff. I was working in London a few years back and longing for the mountains of home and I promised myself that when I returned I'd revisit some of my old walks and try and get back into the whole wilderness buzz again. Then I started bringing a video camera, and things just sort of spiraled out of control. Anyway, hope you like my vids and you can help me out by pressing the big red subscribe button and giving me a thumbs up. Cheers and thanks!
Exploring old ruins and a very strange rock! Part 2!
Is there a void in your life that can only be filled with rocks, old ruins, and a self-styled bogman from Donegal talking wanton gibberish into a camera? Then your search for inner fulfilment is finally over!
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Exploring old ruins plus a very weird rock
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Exploring old ruins plus a very weird rock
The Owenea River, from Sea to Source. Part 2
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Warning, contains extreme nonsense.
The Owenea River. From sea to source. Part 1.
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A walk up the Owenea river from sea to source.
Croaghan Hill
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Just a wee quick walk up the side of Croaghan Hill in East Donegal to check on some trees I planted.
Jimmy Campbell's Kitchen.
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This was a wee thing that Peter and Jimmy did for the Friel sisters (a traditional group). It was just a few tunes and a bit of crack that Peter emailed them for some special occasion? Maybe it was for a birthday or perhaps a wedding? I can't remember as it was a couple of years ago. They probably got sent a few tunes or something but this here is the entire thing, almost unedited. It was a luc...
The Poison Glen
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A walk through one of Donegal's most famous landmarks, the Poison Glen. This took roughly 9 hours so maybe not one for beginners! Disclaimer: I have no legal claim to the song used in this video, Everything is Free, by Gillian Welch, from the album Revelator, 2001 Acony Records.
Return to Glenlough, overnight camp
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A return trip to Glenlough via the sea cliffs at Port
The Burn Deele river (part 3, the Controversial one!)
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The third and final installment of this gripping trilogy about some river no ones ever heard of.
The Burn Deele river (Part 1)
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A wee walk exploring this lovely and often overlooked river.
Rainwater Harvesting Tank. Full Build.
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Rainwater Harvesting Tank. Full Build.
Croaghleheen (and how to get lost in a forest)
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Croaghleheen (and how to get lost in a forest)
A session with Jimmy & Peter Campbell
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A session with Jimmy & Peter Campbell
A walk from my book, Meenderryherk .
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A walk from my book, Meenderryherk .
Revisiting abandoned cottages that I photographed 10 years ago
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Revisiting abandoned cottages that I photographed 10 years ago
The Lost Railways of Donegal Part 2
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The Lost Railways of Donegal Part 2
Camping at Glenlough via Slievetooey Mountain
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Camping at Glenlough via Slievetooey Mountain
The Owendoo River, Stunning Donegal Scenery, Lizards and Leaping Salmon
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The Owendoo River, Stunning Donegal Scenery, Lizards and Leaping Salmon
Excellent wee film. Really enjoyed it. Keep at it
Thanks for watching 😊
Paddy we need more videos quick
when i can only get 500 odd views in a month it's hard to motivate myself.
More of a walking video not fishing,when u dont even know what flyrod u use,dosent really say a lot
Congrats on 1K!
Yes! Somebody noticed! Cheers!
No need to worry about the fame gettin to that rock. It'll stay grounded. Donegal's looking great! 👍
Ha! Thanks 😊
Looks like a great place to camp for a couple days. Pitch a tent inside the foundation. River just down the hill. Beautiful scenery and most importantly solitude.
Definitely!
Paddy, nylon brush and bucket! Any photos, run them through the filters. Negative, etc. Any marks on the rocks will jump out at you. Good luck my friend.
No worries!
Thanks for the mention Paddy, fame at last! Another interesting adventure - I'm definitely heading out to that rock at some point this summer.
No worries!
There’s 20 benson and 4 butter vouchers buried under that rock Paddy!
😂😂
excellent work sir..
Thanks for watching!
il tell you what u are paddy NOT WISE ha ha another great video paddy kep it up
100%!😂
It's a great life ye have, Paddy!!
Thanks! Like anything good it was hard got!
Hi paddy i enjoyed your hike around doochary class scenery i have been in the village n enjoyed a few pints in the pub you keep up the great videos paddy in belfast
Cheers Paddy!
Your worse than bear Grylls u lying bollocks, your next video you'll be pretending to sleep in a sheep skin while really going to Harvey's point 😂
Great. That old bridge looks to have been made with sections of rail-taken from a disused light railway - or a quarry nearby ? I wonder if people in Donegal did the same as here-it's called Hafod and Hendre in Welsh- they had a summer grazing house and for cold months (10 months ?!!) a house in the valley bottom/village. Just made me wonder because no attempt seems to have been made to render the drystone walls. Hard life, either way.
Aye Tom, they had that grazing system here. But the wee huts they made called Boolies were really simple, unlikely to have windows and a fireplace. You can still find remains of them but they're not much to look at.
Wouldn't it be brilliant if everybody started writing comments that sent you on wild goose chases. Paddy, there's an ancient burial tomb underneath your rain water harvester. It has carved stones and golden treasure. DIG IT UP
I had to look! What if he was right!
Some serious log splitting skills and great to see the fire 🔥 going
I really and truly love your videos Paddy. What a lovely day you have had exploring Doochary and back to that infamous rock and those cottage ruins. Very insightful and lots of fun and banter couldn’t stop laughing at you. Thanks for showing us Donegal at its best my home. You should look up old forts nearby
Thanks for watching Annie!
Great vid Paddy and info really intrigued also about the history of the people that lived in these places god bless them
For sure! Thanks for watching.
Hiya Paddy - that's my wife's family's cottage. The mural is by local artist Andrea Redmond.
It's amazing!
The rock is a fairy grave ❤ I always enjoy your videos Paddy, and admire your adventures. THE Pots you found brought a tear to my eye,reminded me so much of lenan fort in urris ,clonmanny where my dad was stationed, (and reared as a child to escape the hiring fair ). The cooking Pots i saw in lenan fort could well have fed my daddy and many other men. ❤
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
33.42 into the clip round circle near the top
Must have a look
Brilliant lad 👌
Cheers! Thanks for watching.
You not going to the rory Gallagher festival this week end nice video , that rock seems to be in a basin and why would you want to live out there so far away from everyone, interesting keep up the good work your nearly there
Ahh I'd like to but have crap to do. I drove through it today on the way home from work and it looked class. Place was hopping!
Absolutely fantastic Paddy! We have climbed Errigal and hiked to Lough Altan. The Poisoned Glen is on our Bucket List. Thanks for the brilliant video!
Sound John! Thanks for watching!
Stick your scottush plantation songs up your arse , its ireland your in not Scotland ,,, now fuck of dickhead
Your an embarrassment to listen to ... hill walkers are cringing , wise up .. your a complete twat ... why are you swearing so much .. grow up
Hi Paddy, do you know Elliots bar in Leitir ?
I do aye.
Finally got that of my bucket list - watching a Donegal man dig a hole....sure what else would you be doing before mass!
My dad was a minor on the London underground so diggings in the blood!
The stone is a boundary marker or grave marker placed there by a race of giants called the Tuatha de Dannan or their cousins the Firbolgs.
I've heard of them. the first inhabitants of Ireland. Thanks for watching!
If only we could open the universal video history to see the life and times of the cottage.
I would guess that it was still inhabited up until the 1970s. It's entirely possible, maybe even the 1980s. I would love to have seen it when it was still inhabited.
@@highlandpaddy2756 You will never meet a history buff who doesn't want a time machine to see the heyday of their interest.
@@jollyroger7624 true!
I can enlighten you. The rock is a spaceship made by Luftwaffe in 1937 (january 6th, to be precise) together with beings from Gliese854i. It contains the secret treasure of Hermann Göring, Vladimir Komarovs Soyuz capsule, the recipe for Coca-Cola, the original 15 Commandments and 1.000.000 Twinkies
Hey buddy, thought of setting up some walking/hiking tours in Donegal? Love the videos, happy to see some posted recently. Hope to see more
turtle's head , the mound is the body
Cheers!
another great video paddy well done
Cheers JJ!
awesome, that landscape has ancient storys
Absolutely! I love it. Thanks for watching!
brilliant lad 👌
Cheers! Thanks 4 watching!
There are two or three crosses carved on it and a perfect circle carved on one side
Can't say I've noticed that.
@highlandpaddy2756 there kind of hard to notice at first, wish I could be there an show them 2 u
The cross or x I saw is about 1/4 way up on the first side u showed. The circle I saw is on the other side opposite the the cross about 1/2 way up closer to the left side. There kind of hard to see unless you take pictures from every angle of the video. But to me watching yur video again there looks to More symbols. I'm no ruen stone expert. I wish I was I love that kind of thing. Especially when it comes to Celtic or Gaelic. My dad's side of the family is 💯% Danish with roots in Denmark going all the way back to the Vikings
I promise I have not been eating schrooms or smoking peyote.
If you shine a l.e.d flash light holding it at an angle to the stone u might be able to c the images better. Something I learned from reading old tombstones that are ineligible.
You found a burial mound. It might have archaeological importance.
I actually had 2 archaeology types up from Dublin to look at it, years ago, and they said it was an erratic, left by chance by retreating ice. Who knows.
I think it is a burial mound as well....Giants were seriously real not just Myth and Legend.....I think the large stone was placed there by a Giant as reverence to another of it's kind just like Stonehenge was.
@@blaze1148 I have no idea! I got a real good vibe from the place.
Good for you!
Thanks for watching!
you are right it is heaven compared to where we live nowadays
I hear you. But I did a few years in hell first to get there!
@@highlandpaddy2756 I think we all have a fair idea of hell on our island
ive been looking for interesting walks near home, thanks sir and subbed
No worries! Cheers Bobby!
That rock in the video is possibly an "erratic" from the last ice age
Probably, if you read my replies to one of the comments I give a more detailed description.
thanks, I have read the description since ! I remember a similar stone in Rostrevor, where I was a child. Is is called the Cloughmore stone. @@highlandpaddy2756
Great video Paddy - according to Griffiths valuation of Donegal in 1857, that house is in the townland of Befflaght and was occupied by Thomas Duffy. Thomas Duffy died in 1885 of Bronchitis, aged 80. The 1911 census shows it was occupied by Neil and Mary Duffy and their family. I'm sure it was a hard life but such a beautiful place!
Brilliant! To be honest I have been to them ruins before and photographed them, it's just in the start of the video I wasn't sure if I was on the right path. It's been years since I was there. I also knew about the further out ruins and that strange rock. I even sent photos of that rock to archaeologist types in Dublin and they sent 2 men up to meet me to bring them out to look at that rock! According to them it's just an 'erratic" left there by chance by retreating ice. But I still think there's something special about it. It must have had a local name and folklore attached. I wish now I'd have mentioned all this in the video! Thanks for the information. I'd always wondered who lived there.
@@highlandpaddy2756 I couldn't find the other ruin on the Griffiths 1857 valuation so it must have been built sometime after that. You should check out Griffiths valuation information - it has the owners of most of the old ruins you see around the country. Also the Irish Historical Map Viewer has some interesting information about the Duffy household. They reckon that house may have been built as early as the 17thC because of the style of the old fireplace.
I am a way over to chat to the neighbours, see you in a hour Lolol arse hole of nowhere .good video again
😅😅
Oyster good place for a 24deck
Kabath!
Kabaff
Well thats a very weird rock formation Paddy, but the wee house would be a quiet place to live thats for sure !
I would love it, apart from the midges!
wow...that rock is amazing, i never knew a tree would often be planted near an house to give it shade, i thought it was just a coincidence...great video, thanks for the upload..
For shelter more than shade I'd say, from the wind. Thanks for watching.
One of your best. What a place ! That first ruin has been quite a place in the day- is the land grazed down to that bare appearance, or is that natural ? I'm just back from some similar places in Snowdonia/Eryri and it always fascinates me that -after all that work to build and keep the place- someone, one day, simply walked away (or was carried away on the shoulders of neighbours) -and that was that
Thanks Tom. You can see that the land below the house was once farmed but it's gone to rushes now. Ireland is littered with these ruins. I'm fascinated with them. I spent years searching and photographing them.
This video is a piece of Art Paddy, very emotive. My Dad used to play music in that wee bar, I always mind the lovely building and helping him carry in the gear. He passed away a few months ago. Nice wee memory to see today, thanks for putting this together.
Thanks very much Gary. Sorry to hear about your father, glad you enjoyed the video.