Templecorran Church Ruins and Graveyard, IslandMagee / Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland - Drone

Templecorran Church Ruins and Graveyard, Island Magee / Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland
Music is from Epidemic Sounds - Ali Sabah, Fadfada
The Church Ruins - The roofless ruins of the church stand reasonably intact, though very little architectural detail is now visible. The design of this church is important because it is one of several churches known to have been built by the Scots in early seventeenth-century Ulster on the plan of a Greek cross, that is, with each arm of the cross of equal length. It is unclear whether the church we see today was built in its entirety in the early seventeenth century or whether it was a rebuilding of an earlier rectangular-plan structure to which aisles were added. Cruciform churches were virtually unknown in medieval Ulster and indeed, there were no churches on the plan of a Greek cross so far as is known. Another reason that this ruin is of great interest is the twelve musket loops in its walls. It appears the church was more than just a place of worship - it was also designed to provide refuge in case of attack.
Templecorran Graveyard - The graveyard of Templecorran stands on an Early Christian ecclesiastical site. Though none of the buildings of this monastery survives, there is an Early Christian cross-inscribed stone in the graveyard. The original boundary ditch that surrounded this site, a massive circular enclosure, can still be traced in surrounding fields. With a diameter of 320 metres, it is one of the largest enclosures to cover an ecclesiastical site in Ireland. The monastery closed, possibly due to Viking attacks. Still, through the medieval period, the site was the location of a parish church, perhaps the ‘Church of Laslaynan’ as recorded in the papal taxation of 1306.
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This video and the content it contains are about Amazing Drone Video Footage. I'm quite excited to be exploring my own island of Ireland. For the film and photographs you see, I used my trusty Sony camera, my 4K Dji Drone, and insta360 onex2 camera, as well as my iPhone. Please join me on this fascinating and sometimes unbelievable trip.
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