CHURCH ISLAND LOUGH BEG CO LONDONDERRY NORTHERN IRELAND
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- Опубліковано 26 лют 2023
- CHURCH ISLAND LOUGH BEG CO. LONDONDERRY NORTHERN IRELAND
Church Island on Lough Beg, which is really a wide part of the Lower Bann River, has the ruin of an old church complete with a spire which was added later by the Earl of Bristol (Bishop of Derry, also known as Bishop Hervey) around 1788. He desired to see the location of the ruins better from a grand palace which he also built on the grounds of what is now 'Ballyscullion House'. This palace which cost £100,000 to build was started in 1787 and almost finished in 1805. It was reputed to have had the best Italian marble and notably 365 windows. Later, when it transferred to his nephew on the Bishop's death in 1803, the government of the day reputedly applied a punitive window tax and the 'palace' was demolished in 1813 after standing for only some 8 years! Much of the rubble was re-cycled to build the present day 'Ballyscullion House'. Some palace remains can still be found in the woods and were recently used as a film set for the "Game of Thrones" series. Interestingly, the portico was carefully dismantled, ferried by barge and re-built in Belfast as the entrance to St George's Church.
The spire on Church Island is known locally as Hervey’s Folly. During World War II an American aircraft based at the nearby Creagh air-base hit it with its wing tip and put a pronounced kink in it. It has since been partially straightened by the Department of the Environment who now look after it.
Around the wall-steads is an old cemetery containing about fifty known graves, and the site of the ancient monastery which St Patrick is credited with establishing in the 5th century..
It is known that the old Church was in ruins by the year 1603 having apparently been burned down during the ‘Plantation’ period and that in the year of 1798 during the Rebellion, many women and children were forced to take shelter on this and other islands of Lough Beg.
Visitors can walk in the summer months across the water meadows to the island from the County Londonderry side. Church Island is not an 'island' as such, insofar that only its eastern flank is adjoined by water. After the dredging of the River Bann in the 1940s, the water on the west side of the island receded - although after really bad weather the swollen waters again completely surround the place.
The water meadows known as ‘The Strand’ stretch to over 300 acres and are alive with bird some of which reside here permanently and some of which migrate in from other parts of the northern hemisphere. Birds such as snipe, redshank, peewit, mixed with black-tailed godwit, green sand piper, wood sandpiper, greenshank and knot. Thousands of geese and ducks fly in during the winter from Russia and other northern sources to take advantage of the excellent feeding available. Many rare plants including Pennyroyal and the Irish Ladies' Tresses orchid share this habitat with the birds. Hi everyone if you would like to help the channel out even more you can donate to the channel in the youtube Banner link or in the about section link . thanks to everyone your support has been amazing its very much appreciated take care. - Фільми й анімація
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LIKE 👍 Stable flight! What a beautiful sight! Amazing video! Everything is perfect 👌 It seems possible because it is a drone view 🙏 Have a happy day and weekend, my friend 💖
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Beautiful views of the church ruins and surroundings set to lovely music. I enjoyed in full to the end. Thank you, my friend.
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Beautiful country, beautiful town!Beautiful landscape!
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Wonderful location and flight. Liked the way you showed the old church from aerial perspective. Great!!
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Absolutely awesome place and such beautiful smooth shots !!👏👏 Awesome church !!!
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Very pretty colours... out of this world filming... love the hour of the day... you always manage to combine incredible music to your works... a worthy production fit for a cinematic wonder ... you surely enriched my day dear one 🙏🌹
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Outstanding aerial shots of this beautiful little church ruin and very nice video, mate.🤘👌
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Anyone from Ireland who flies a drone is my friend! Thank you for the subscribe! Right back at you! Subscribed! Lovely flight over this church! 👍👍
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Glad to see you again in these places. Nice footage, and beautiful place. Greetings!
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Wow!! What a suggestive place! And your images are too notch as always, my friend! Warmest wishes and see you soon! Renata 👍👏
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Amazing video, this church looks so awesome, magical! So mistic! Great drone scene! Thanks for share this video! Greetings from Croatia❤❤❤❤
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Stunning footage!
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Very nice video! A truly picturesque location in a beautiful area. 😊👌
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Great footage mate..perfect, not dragged out or over the top music..100%
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Lovely. Thank you for the early spring video.
We are in fall here in Chile. Jim
Glad you enjoyed it Jim getting back into it after long break over the winter months body is not liking the cold 🥶 as I get older and had a few health issues with hospital stays but looking forward to getting out and about again over the summer cheers. Ps hope you and family are doing good Jim take care cheers
Amazing steady shots! Love it! 😍
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Beautifully constructed.
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Some great looking footage my friend
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Absolutely gorgeous work my friend, shots ate brilliantly executed!
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Wooow, I can’t imagine all the history 🤝😎
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Outstanding as always..
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As always very nice indeed great video
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Beautiful video
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Lovely video and great to see you.
Thank you! 😊 Glad you enjoyed it getting back into it after long break over the winter months body is not liking the cold 🥶 as I get older and had a few health issues with hospital stays but looking forward to getting out and about again over the summer cheers. Ps hope you and family are doing good take care cheers
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Thanks for the visit Thanks 👍so much billy going out again after long break over winter months from UA-cam and a few health issues with hospital stays feeling better now cheers
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RodPiker, Great reveal opening shot!!! Liked and Subbed!!!
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cheers David great to here from you hope all is well with you and your family Thanks 👍so much David going out again after long break over winter months from UA-cam and a few health issues with hospital stays feeling better now cheers
Thanks. Love the final scene.
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Nicely done Rod, attractive site shot with finesse. Spire and tower seem to be in really good nick. 👀👍
Cheers Steve the spire is the only thing that has stood the test off time more than the building itself . Cheers
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Very cool. Well done flying, editing and content. Your initial approach and take off was amazingly smooth. Smashed the buttons. Cheers
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Great Video. Ive never heard of this place before, but now I cant wait to visit. Your detailed description on its history is very interesting. I checked it out on google maps and seen that it has its own carpark and what looks like a board walk to the nearby nature reserve. All we need now is some dry weather so its not a Island again when I do get to visit.
You should! Austell it’s a wonderful place wait for a bit of dry weather and bring a pair of Wellington boots with you . Cheers take care
Great video and great to see your out with the drone again 👍
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Thanks so much for your comments and support much appreciated I’ve been having a break from UA-cam over the winter months and had a few health issues with hospital stays but feeling a lot better now . Cheers 👍
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Great drone video mate. I have learned a lot from this video to use with my new Dji Mini Pro 3. ☘👍
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Beautiful flight Rod!
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lovely work
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Great video mate, really enjoyed watching this😊
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Beautiful
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nice video Rodney. nicely filmed, good edit .
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Great video, well flown, loved to big reveal at the start, very well edited and music to match. a big 👍from me, new sub here. Russ
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amazing!
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Beautiful spot m8
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Nice to see you back in action Rod. Did you actually back out of the church or reverse the video on that shot? Nicely done either way‼️
Hi Doug great to here from you I’m back after break from UA-cam over the winter months and a few health problems but looking forward to getting out and about now the weather is starting to get better. As for backing the drone out off the church I spent ages doing that shot and a few near misses with the walls I ended up reversing the footage lol cheers 🍻
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Great video, well done, love to see the old buildings and churches, what are the white crosses dotted around the edges, are they graves?
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A little bit of ancient Ireland, looks like a listed site...It's tragic what's now happening to Ireland, nowhere is sacred.....🤔😳😳😳🙄🇬🇧
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very nice footage ! good job my friend👍
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