The Town walls of Clonmel would have been somewhat higher during the Cromwellian siege. The arches were designed according to the custom of the times, to facilitate the garrison's defence. A defender, armed with a pike or other implement of war, would be stationed there, ready to impale any attacker who came over. That was Cromwell's last foray in his Irish campaign as, like all other "little tin gods," his star was on the descent. In his abscence, the political landscape in England began to shift, and Parliament recalled him to London. Sound familiar?! By the way, the tower is the only octagonal one in Ireland.
This place is stunning, wished I could have gone inside to see but we couldn't, met a lovely gentleman who had so much information on exactly what you said in your comment, I'm no history buff but just love while in the moment you get to meet people who are so full of the history and want to share their knowledge, thanks foe taking the time to comment ❤ I'll pin this comment now
I. Am now. 78 years old .For 55years l have tried to get to this beloved land of yours and of my people If l had not found you on line ,l would not have seen the magic of which you show us Thank you from the heart .you are beautiful and soooo good at what you do.
Thank you so much for taking us to see this lovely Graveyard and Church. Some of these headstones were beautiful so very different to those in other places you have taken us. Its lovely to see the Church is still in use and the grounds are kept so well. Very interesting. Blessings to yiu both 💕🇦🇺
Lovely, Lovely, Lovely!!! Gorgeous place. I loved all of the varied stones in this one. I also love being able to see the old city walls. What a treat to be able to visit through you and Irish Eyes. Thank you both very much.
Hi Sue Another great walk on a beautiful day. Some really amazing headstones. The arches were interesting. But those red doors on the church were beautiful. It’s said it represents the blood of Christ and those who pass through are protected from evil. Looking forward to the next and Irish eyes vids. ❤️🇺🇸
I've never seen as beautiful graveyards & the headstones are amazingly beautiful, thank you so much sue for another great tour, God bless you, may all the souls rest in eternal peace 🙏🙏🙏🌹☘️🇮🇪
Hey Sue, a new viewer here. Thanks for showing those beautiful old Irish graveyards with such exquisite carvings and style, a truly lost art. It’s amazing to think our ancestors thought so much of their departed. I know they do today, but it’s not quite the same in my eyes. The attention to detail and artistic flair are truly outstanding! Hat’s off to you and Irish eyes for allowing us to come along with you both to these sometimes hidden jewels and a remembrance before time erases them forever! Julian, Blue Sky Country, Interior British Columbia, Canada.
Joosty you will love this channel & Irish Eyes. Beautiful cemeteries & churches. The Ireland landscape is gorgeous. Also Ron at Faces of The Forgotten is a good one in the USA. Welcome Aboard 🥰🥰
You couldn't have picked a better day! Gorgeous location.🤩 Those skulls and skeleton carvings...so cool. I may paint those on my goalie mask!☠😉 Thanks again guys.
Enjoyed this wonderful video so much, you took every headstone and spent just enough time with each one, so respectful, I have always wanted to see these myself but am unable due to caring for a loved one, I will send this video back to family in the U.K and the U.S, they will Cherish it, brilliant, so enjoyable, lived the church floor with Family Crests etc, what craftsmanship, such style. 👏👏
Thank you so very much, this is so very nice to read, I started this when lock down was happening for everyone who couldn't travel or for those not able to visit these beautiful places, it's something I've enjoyed all my life and decided to record them in a way everyone can enjoy for yrs to come, thanks once again for watching and for wanting to share my videos with others. We have a really great group here ❤️❤️
Hi Sue! Thanks for more great coverage of a beautiful graveyard and some fine stonework. Those carved slabs in the church porch look fascinating. I'd be on my hands and knees with a torch to look at them. I wonder what it is with the Church of Ireland and red doors. I guess they stand out from the greenery that surrounds a lot of churches. 🇦🇺 🇮🇪
Can't say that I've seen an iron surround on a headstone before but, at the back of my mind, I do have a faint memory of perhaps seeing one or two in Clonmel's municipal cemetery, St. Patrick's. Iron railings around graves are quite common, though, and largely date from the 19th century.That reverence and awe for iron goes back to the end of the bronze age when iron was discovered and unleashed a new age of progress for mankind which hasn't stopped since. Unfortunately, the new power of iron hasn't always been used in the best interest of our species. Apart from that, up to and during Victorian times, it was believed that iron had great spiritual powers, and could even control the power of the dead in their graves. Iron railing around graves were not to cordon off the site of an interment or for a show of wealth, but to make sure that the dead stayed in their graves. It was quite common for Victorian coffins of the wealthy to have bands of ornamental iron attached to the lid and body of a coffin. And they weren't there for style!
The small buildings on the walls were for guards my guess would be where they could rest between the walking around the walls while they were guarding it.You will find in most of the old Church yards the oldest headstones are usually at the front.and on the sides of the church.I also believe that the ones with the crossed carved into them.Plain with no words or fancy will probably be the oldest ones in the church yard .Cannot give a date but I have never seen them before..But I am shown images of soldiers not modern poss Cromwell or before Simple stones.A lot of soldiers were just soldiers no wives just fought for the cause in those days.So no remembrance just a cross.Hope this helps .Some never got a headstone if killed in skirmishes just buried where they fell.Poor lads ..Fabulous churchyard Sue ,very interesting.I love the oldest ones the best.So much character.Love n Light 🥰
Missed the premier but really enjoyed the tour. The wall around it was very interesting. And the entryway to the church was really cool. Too bad we couldn't see the inner church. Want to know about the tombs under the floor.
Thanks for this walkabout Sue. Amazing, as always, but the old wall and church tower had me mesmerised. Seeing the Co. Mayo on one of the stones made me snicker a wee bit!! When I married into the Mayo family, I was told they had good, strong Irish bloodlines. After a while I got into genealogy to help our son with a school project. Then I got serious and worked on our tree for over a decade, and had to tell the Mayos' they had no Irish ancestry whatsoever! Gawd, it went down like a ton of lead balloons. Deb.
The beauty of the monuments is astonishing. That these stones have sat for hundreds of years yet represent a contemporary time when they were erected. Each tells a story of a life. Quite humbling to say the least.
I'm pretty sure the wall was erected to withstand the attacks of Cromwell's armies. Oliver Cromwell was a brute. So much great history. The cemetery is so peaceful. The first sight of daffodils is so exciting. I always know that Spring and Summer will soon arrive.
Thank you for taking the trouble to survey the graveyard - fascinating and very informative. Would anyone know whether there is a monument or anything else to mention Francis Bryan who is believed to be buried at St. Mary's circa 1550?
Loved this video. The church is beautiful. Wondering why the red door on churches. Headstones with the skull may be signifying an organisation or fraternity.
I used to think pirates but I've also read its..Memento mori (Latin for 'remember that you [have to] die') is an artistic or symbolic trope acting as a reminder of the inevitability of death. Really cool ❤
So, the joker card is equal to The Fool card in a tarot deck. In tarot magic which is a form of "witchcraft" a Joker or Fool card nailed to a tree (particularly in a cemetery and usually to the wood of a Rowan (ash) tree or an Oak) is typically done to either bring about bad will upon "a fool" who did you wrong or to "pin" a troublesome spirit back into it's grave or a grave. I'm a bit perplexed by seeing this in Ireland as this type of folk magic is most often seen but not limited to the American south or the Appalachian mountains. I am aware that Appalachian people are often Irish or Scottish genetically speaking but I would guess there is an "American witch" running around Tipperary.
Religion and folk beliefs are a hobby of mine. All religions and their practices interest me. I've always loved studying them and have been around some interesting sorts of people.
Irish cemeteries are fascinating. The names, Celtic crosses and statues of Jesus and Mary are like you see nowhere else. I find it somewhat strange an RUC man is buried in Tipperary.
Thank You for your channel Sue and bringing these people’s history to us. Imagine what many of them endured during An Gorta Mor. Pardon no fada’s. As a suggestion, have you considered going to the Famine pits and just showing us the fields and their history. Clearly, I mean no disrespect by showing them respect.
I watched this video after visiting the Clonmel graveyards site and having discovered that the earliest stone that is still legible was that of a Jesuit named Nicholas Leynagh (my surname) who died in 1625 . There is a link to an image of the stone but both that link and the contact link for the site are no longer working . The stone is described as "famous" on another site and I'd hoped it might be shown . . . Ah well , never mind.
As far as i know, Irish Roman Catholics did not own their own cemeteries and they had to be buried in Church of Ireland/Anglican graveyards among Protestants, until the Catholic Emancipation allowed them to have their own burial grounds🤔I think it was the 'Emancipation' which led to the establishment of Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin with the efforts of Daniel O'Connell✝
@@SerenitySueGraveyards Your welcome dearMy point is if there's anyone searching for their Irish Catholic ancestors , dont forget to check Church of Ireland parish burial registers, because Protestant graveyards used to serve both denominations back then😘
Hi Sue, loved the headstones under the arches, I’ve never seen anything like it!
Me either, are they buried there I wonder or are they memorial stones, I kind of hope they are there, how fitting, it's gorgeous 😍
The Town walls of Clonmel would have been somewhat higher during the Cromwellian siege. The arches were designed according to the custom of the times, to facilitate the garrison's defence. A defender, armed with a pike or other implement of war, would be stationed there, ready to impale any attacker who came over. That was Cromwell's last foray in his Irish campaign as, like all other "little tin gods," his star was on the descent. In his abscence, the political landscape in England began to shift, and Parliament recalled him to London. Sound familiar?! By the way, the tower is the only octagonal one in Ireland.
This place is stunning, wished I could have gone inside to see but we couldn't, met a lovely gentleman who had so much information on exactly what you said in your comment, I'm no history buff but just love while in the moment you get to meet people who are so full of the history and want to share their knowledge, thanks foe taking the time to comment ❤ I'll pin this comment now
I. Am now. 78 years old .For 55years l have tried to get to this beloved land of yours and of my people
If l had not found you on line ,l would not have seen the magic of which you show us
Thank you from the heart .you are beautiful and soooo good at what you do.
Ahh thank you Janet, I appreciate it so very much, what a lovely comment to read ❤️🌹
The two best cemetery channels are Hollywood Graveyard and Serenity Sue. Information, not egos. Thanks for your work!❤
Ahh thanks Thelma, everyone loves Arthur Dark of Hollywood Graveyard ❤❤
Thank you so much for taking us to see this lovely Graveyard and Church. Some of these headstones were beautiful so very different to those in other places you have taken us. Its lovely to see the Church is still in use and the grounds are kept so well. Very interesting. Blessings to yiu both 💕🇦🇺
Thanks Liz, God Bless ❤️
Lovely, Lovely, Lovely!!! Gorgeous place. I loved all of the varied stones in this one. I also love being able to see the old city walls. What a treat to be able to visit through you and Irish Eyes. Thank you both very much.
Thanks Janice ❤️
Hi Sue
Another great walk on a beautiful day. Some really amazing headstones. The arches were interesting. But those red doors on the church were beautiful. It’s said it represents the blood of Christ and those who pass through are protected from evil. Looking forward to the next and Irish eyes vids. ❤️🇺🇸
Wow, thanks lots have been asking what it means ❤
Thank you from an Irish Newfoundlander in North Carolina
Hi Marie ❤️
I've never seen as beautiful graveyards & the headstones are amazingly beautiful, thank you so much sue for another great tour, God bless you, may all the souls rest in eternal peace 🙏🙏🙏🌹☘️🇮🇪
I've been very lucky to find some amazing treasures here in Ireland
Hey Sue, a new viewer here. Thanks for showing those beautiful old Irish graveyards with such exquisite carvings and style, a truly lost art. It’s amazing to think our ancestors thought so much of their departed. I know they do today, but it’s not quite the same in my eyes. The attention to detail and artistic flair are truly outstanding! Hat’s off to you and Irish eyes for allowing us to come along with you both to these sometimes hidden jewels and a remembrance before time erases them forever! Julian, Blue Sky Country, Interior British Columbia, Canada.
Joosty you will love this channel & Irish Eyes. Beautiful cemeteries & churches. The Ireland landscape is gorgeous. Also Ron at Faces of The Forgotten is a good one in the USA. Welcome Aboard 🥰🥰
Hi an you are so welcome, I would be nothing without you all here 💗
Ron is my number one Jan, love him ❤️
Well if you & Irish were not any good or interesting I would not watch. Love you two. I'LL always be a FAN of yours😘😘😘❤
@@janbellflower6361 that means a lot 🌹
Beautiful. Sue . very interesting. Love the Church. Love 💘 from Africa 🌍
Thanks Yvonne ❤️
A beautiful old Irish graveyard, thnx for showing us around.
Very welcome ❤️
YES ALWAYS LOVE THE STONEWORK AND DETAIL WOW GREAT CHURCH AND HISTORY TOO 👌👌☘️🇮🇪☘️
Thanks Tim ❤️
You couldn't have picked a better day! Gorgeous location.🤩 Those skulls and skeleton carvings...so cool. I may paint those on my goalie mask!☠😉 Thanks again guys.
Thank you, I'd love to find some more of those, they are so cool to see ❤
Another great walk and looks like you have a beautiful day too! Beautiful headstones and ruins. Remembering all the faithfully departed. 🙏
We were very lucky and the place was gorgeous 😍
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🇦🇺just keeps getting better.nite to you both from ballarat inOz stay safe.
Thanks Peter ❤️ 😊
Great video! Thanks! Congratulations on 6.8k subs👏🏻
Thanks Liz, once again sorry you had that man comment to you like that but oh my did you give him socks 😀 ❤❤🌹🌹
So glad to be here live today! Looking forward to this a great deal.
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Morning sue from ballarat in Oz👋👋👋🇦🇺
Hey Peter ❤️
Lovely walk about guys , never spotted that church all the times I've been there , lovely church
We were blessed with a nice spring day
I am watching this now l caught only a minute live👍🤩❤️🙏
Thanks Bonnie, Enjoy 😉 😘
Enjoyed this wonderful video so much, you took every headstone and spent just enough time with each one, so respectful, I have always wanted to see these myself but am unable due to caring for a loved one, I will send this video back to family in the U.K and the U.S, they will Cherish it, brilliant, so enjoyable, lived the church floor with Family Crests etc, what craftsmanship, such style. 👏👏
Thank you so very much, this is so very nice to read, I started this when lock down was happening for everyone who couldn't travel or for those not able to visit these beautiful places, it's something I've enjoyed all my life and decided to record them in a way everyone can enjoy for yrs to come, thanks once again for watching and for wanting to share my videos with others. We have a really great group here ❤️❤️
@@SerenitySueGraveyards I literally cannot stop watching your videos!! I'm hooked!!👍👍
Thanks so much ❤️ 🙏
Beautiful video the night sue so glad i didn't miss it .❤
Thanks Mandy ❤️
I’m sure it’ll be another fine presentation sue I’ll be watching stay safe y’all from ballarat in Oz👋👋🇦🇺
Thanks Peter ❤️
Bring it on. Lookin fwd!
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The arches are so nice very different
Just gorgeous ❤🌹
Missed live chat but e enjoyed the tour.
Thanks Louise ❤️
Me encanta los vídeos de cementerio antiguos
Thanks very much 😀
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Hi Sue! Thanks for more great coverage of a beautiful graveyard and some fine stonework. Those carved slabs in the church porch look fascinating. I'd be on my hands and knees with a torch to look at them. I wonder what it is with the Church of Ireland and red doors. I guess they stand out from the greenery that surrounds a lot of churches. 🇦🇺 🇮🇪
I would have only I was only let in for a second due to rehearsal but wow I wanted to read them closely, the red doors are so beautiful 😍
It's amazing how the old headstones are still standing
It truly is, made with love and dedication ❤️
I have never seen a iron headstone before that was cool. Great video
That was a cool one for sure ❤
Can't say that I've seen an iron surround on a headstone before but, at the back of my mind, I do have a faint memory of perhaps seeing one or two in Clonmel's municipal cemetery, St. Patrick's. Iron railings around graves are quite common, though, and largely date from the 19th century.That reverence and awe for iron goes back to the end of the bronze age when iron was discovered and unleashed a new age of progress for mankind which hasn't stopped since. Unfortunately, the new power of iron hasn't always been used in the best interest of our species. Apart from that, up to and during Victorian times, it was believed that iron had great spiritual powers, and could even control the power of the dead in their graves. Iron railing around graves were not to cordon off the site of an interment or for a show of wealth, but to make sure that the dead stayed in their graves. It was quite common for Victorian coffins of the wealthy to have bands of ornamental iron attached to the lid and body of a coffin. And they weren't there for style!
The small buildings on the walls were for guards my guess would be where they could rest between the walking around the walls while they were guarding it.You will find in most of the old Church yards the oldest headstones are usually at the front.and on the sides of the church.I also believe that the ones with the crossed carved into them.Plain with no words or fancy will probably be the oldest ones in the church yard .Cannot give a date but I have never seen them before..But I am shown images of soldiers not modern poss Cromwell or before Simple stones.A lot of soldiers were just soldiers no wives just fought for the cause in those days.So no remembrance just a cross.Hope this helps .Some never got a headstone if killed in skirmishes just buried where they fell.Poor lads ..Fabulous churchyard Sue ,very interesting.I love the oldest ones the best.So much character.Love n Light 🥰
Thanks Christine for the information once again, such beauty there 😍
Missed the premier but really enjoyed the tour. The wall around it was very interesting. And the entryway to the church was really cool. Too bad we couldn't see the inner church. Want to know about the tombs under the floor.
Me too Ben, I'd love to go down under there, such a gorgeous place 😍
Thanks!
That is really so kind of you and very much appreciated, thank you ❤️
Love this cemetery and Church..beautiful day out ..I love Ireland ..hi Irish eyes. .good seeing ya. Do you help Sue with videos..
Hi, yes he's always with me, for most just in the back ground but has got less camera shy lately 😅
You and GV are both amazing I really love your channels
Wish I could come over to Ireland 🇮🇪 and join you I’m still looking for my ancestors ❤
Maybe one day! Dreams do come true
@@SerenitySueGraveyards I’m praying 🙏
@jodouglas5792 🙏
Thanks for this walkabout Sue. Amazing, as always, but the old wall and church tower had me mesmerised. Seeing the Co. Mayo on one of the stones made me snicker a wee bit!! When I married into the Mayo family, I was told they had good, strong Irish bloodlines. After a while I got into genealogy to help our son with a school project. Then I got serious and worked on our tree for over a decade, and had to tell the Mayos' they had no Irish ancestry whatsoever! Gawd, it went down like a ton of lead balloons. Deb.
Haha Deb, oh never tell anyone the truth about their Irish ancestry, especially if they have none 😅
The beauty of the monuments is astonishing. That these stones have sat for hundreds of years yet represent a contemporary time when they were erected. Each tells a story of a life. Quite humbling to say the least.
Thanks Andrew, the history in there is amazing ❤
❤❤❤memorial place
Thanks
Interesting video, thanks
Thank you ❤️
Thanks very much 😀 ❤
I'm pretty sure the wall was erected to withstand the attacks of Cromwell's armies. Oliver Cromwell was a brute. So much great history. The cemetery is so peaceful. The first sight of daffodils is so exciting. I always know that Spring and Summer will soon arrive.
Yes Elizabeth the man at the church told us a few stories, so I linked in some info below the video, gard times for sure ❤
Hi Sue, really enjoy your videos. My family comes from Clonmel but I’m in England. I don’t suppose you’ve come across any Dwyer headstones or crypts?
I may have just can't remember right now but my Dr was called Dr. Dryer, he is retired now but he was a lovely man
@@SerenitySueGraveyards that’s lovely 😊
Thank you for taking the trouble to survey the graveyard - fascinating and very informative. Would anyone know whether there is a monument or anything else to mention Francis Bryan who is believed to be buried at St. Mary's circa 1550?
There's lots of information if you Google the church and grounds, it's very historic
Loved this video. The church is beautiful. Wondering why the red door on churches. Headstones with the skull may be signifying an organisation or fraternity.
I used to think pirates but I've also read its..Memento mori (Latin for 'remember that you [have to] die') is an artistic or symbolic trope acting as a reminder of the inevitability of death. Really cool ❤
So, the joker card is equal to The Fool card in a tarot deck. In tarot magic which is a form of "witchcraft" a Joker or Fool card nailed to a tree (particularly in a cemetery and usually to the wood of a Rowan (ash) tree or an Oak) is typically done to either bring about bad will upon "a fool" who did you wrong or to "pin" a troublesome spirit back into it's grave or a grave. I'm a bit perplexed by seeing this in Ireland as this type of folk magic is most often seen but not limited to the American south or the Appalachian mountains. I am aware that Appalachian people are often Irish or Scottish genetically speaking but I would guess there is an "American witch" running around Tipperary.
Wow wow wow, I found it strange but didn't look into it, now that is super information 😳❤
Religion and folk beliefs are a hobby of mine. All religions and their practices interest me. I've always loved studying them and have been around some interesting sorts of people.
@@timothypruitt9028 never would I have linked that card to anything like you said ❤
Irish cemeteries are fascinating. The names, Celtic crosses and statues of Jesus and Mary are like you see nowhere else. I find it somewhat strange an RUC man is buried in Tipperary.
I never even thought of that 🤔 but yes I just love those headstones too ❤
You should visit the graveyard by the church down in sandybanks in marlfield if you haven't already
Irish eyes did a video in Marlfield its gorgeous check it out if you can, let me know if it's the one you're talking about please 🙏 ❤
Isn’t it beautiful there. Sue how long is your winters an summers.
Summer is 3 mths but that doesn't mean we will get great weather, its very hit and miss ❤
Thank You for your channel Sue and bringing these people’s history to us. Imagine what many of them endured during An Gorta Mor. Pardon no fada’s. As a suggestion, have you considered going to the Famine pits and just showing us the fields and their history. Clearly, I mean no disrespect by showing them respect.
Thank you, I have thought of that but have not located one yet for my channel, ❤❤
@@SerenitySueGraveyards Thanks 🙏 for your reply and really enjoy your work. So informative and beautiful.
That means a lot to me ❤🌹
Adoro los cementerio saludos me encanta sus videos
Appreciate it, thanks very very much 🙏
Hi Sue
Hi Regina ❤️
I watched this video after visiting the Clonmel graveyards site and having discovered that the earliest stone that is still legible was that of a Jesuit named Nicholas Leynagh (my surname) who died in 1625 . There is a link to an image of the stone but both that link and the contact link for the site are no longer working . The stone is described as "famous" on another site and I'd hoped it might be shown . . . Ah well , never mind.
Ahh OK I've seen those links too they don't work, not sure why
As far as i know, Irish Roman Catholics did not own their own cemeteries and they had to be buried in Church of Ireland/Anglican graveyards among Protestants, until the Catholic Emancipation allowed them to have their own burial grounds🤔I think it was the 'Emancipation' which led to the establishment of Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin with the efforts of Daniel O'Connell✝
Thanks for the information 👍
@@SerenitySueGraveyards Your welcome dearMy point is if there's anyone searching for their Irish Catholic ancestors , dont forget to check Church of Ireland parish burial registers, because Protestant graveyards used to serve both denominations back then😘
@giannaezekiel5666 that's great information actually never thought of that
Hello Sue lots of people that were once walking this earth. Is there a significant reason why the church doors are red? Have a great day.
I was told in chat it's a welcoming colour, other than that it's so beautiful 😍
@@SerenitySueGraveyards Thankyou your reply you have a great day. Cold and snowy here north shore lake Erie
Thanks James it's nearly 8am here, gotta get ready for our next adventure looks like we've a gorgeous day here, cold but sunny 🌞
clonmel is home town
It's beautiful
If you had gone out the back gate of the church there sue, and down to the road and turned left you would have found the quackers grave yard
Unfortunately it's locked up by the council so we couldn't get in, 😪