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.
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.
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.
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.
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..
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
ive been looking for interesting walks near home, thanks sir and subbed
No worries! Cheers Bobby!
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!
awesome, that landscape has ancient storys
Absolutely! I love it. Thanks for watching!
another great video paddy well done
Cheers JJ!
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
brilliant lad 👌
Cheers! Thanks 4 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.
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
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 am a way over to chat to the neighbours, see you in a hour Lolol arse hole of nowhere .good video again
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Good for you!
Thanks for watching!
Hi Paddy, do you know Elliots bar in Leitir ?
I do aye.
Oyster good place for a 24deck
Kabath!
Kabaff
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.
turtle's head , the mound is the body
Cheers!