Lovely graveyard thankyou and you deserve more likes ,why dont more people hit the thumbs up plz give sue more love for what she does , she and gv bring us awsome content to watch its only a little ask 🫶🙏
Another great video Sue. Thank you for sharing your finds in the vaults as well as out. I really look forward to these videos they are so fascinating. Much respect ❤❤❤❤❤
Some of the vaults looked more like entrances to bunkers than actual vaults. So sad to see so many forever forgotten. Your son is a wonderful young man. I am sure you are very proud ❤
Love your videos of all those beautiful graveyards. Its like stepping back in time. Thank you Sue, keep on filming. 😊Greetings from the Netherlands. 🇳🇱
How well built are they.. hardly any cement, just perfectly cut stone. Beautiful place and like GV said peaceful... Perfect place for a camper van.. I'd say the coffins fell over and that's how they landed. Just slipped more over time perhaps. Fantastic video Sue
Very gorgeous cemetary, it love the stone work on the one Mausaleum, ❤ and as always the stone walls I always love, I think how many who carried and placed each stone, it's beautiful there. Thanx for the walk and 📚 reading and remembering those gone❤😊
I love looking into the mausoleums and crypts with you. It’s fascinating to see how people end up. I hope that all who deserve it are resting in peace.
What a beautiful graveyard that is. Those mausoleums are lovely, love the stonework. Such a shame that one was destroyed, don’t know how anyone could do that. Thank you for taking me along. Please take care
Such a beautiful place to rest. It's nice to see that there are families that still visit and it's still cared for despite the harsh weather, which has paid a toll on some of the coffins. Thank you for showing us this beautiful place Sue ❤❤❤xx t 🇦🇺❤
Thank you guys, great video. Cheers from New Zealand, travelling to Ireland next year, so many flying hours my daughter works in London looking forward to it
The two Downes families that are connected to each other just made me tear up. They are absolutely beautiful and such a sweet gesture. ♥️🥺 Just saddened by their condition inside.
For mausoleums looking to be sealed so well- how the coffins could be helter skelter inside is such a mystery! I would think that at each burial- care would be taken to stack them carefully. We’ll never know! Being from the US- it is such a puzzle to figure out how each cemetery has been planned & laid out. Was there a plan or did they just start burying folks wherever!? Your amazing videos have brought so many questions to mind- especially how they maneuvered around the grounds to bury a new departed loved one. A mystery, indeed!
@@SerenitySueGraveyards Hi again Sue. During World War I, many soldiers died from exposure to chemical weapons, infectious diseases, and trench conditions. Myles O'Mahony died after being ill for two months with acute bronchitis and chronic bronchial asthma as a result exposure while on duty.
G’day Sue greetings from Tasmania I think that the coffins are in a bad condition is that the body when it starts to break down fills with gas methane ect and they can explode they have vent holes for the gases to escape but if you have more than two that is a real build up. The mosuleams excuse the spelling are beautifully built by true craftsman and that dry stone wall is something else, it’s a pity that they don’t poison that Ivy it destroys buildings it wouldn’t take that much. Thank you Sue for filming this one it’s a beautiful place to be laid down in in the beautiful Irish country side, look after yourself God Bless John PS that straight monument looks like an aircraft propeller?
G’day to you ! also from Tasmania! Thank you for the explanation as to why the mausoleums are in disarray, and you’re right, the singular looking grave-marker could be a representative of a propeller. I agree with the ivy being a problem too.
I do enjoy watching both your channels. I do not understand, though, how so many people can be in one grave. Be safe in your travels. Greetings from Missouri USA
This cemetery looks bleak at first glance, but as per , the love and respect for our dearly departed loved ones, warms and shines through. Thank you Sue.
Such a shame sue,looks like the coffins were just tossed in there Willy nilly,so sad to see,another top number ,all the graves and mauseleums in their natural Beauty,May all R.I.P,take care ,safe travels to you both,🙏🙏👋👋👍👍🇦🇺
Sue, it looked to me like boards holding short shelving had collasped down. Dumping everything to the middle. Putting older shelved coffins on top of the newer ones. Watched it several times and ut seemed to be a plausible happening. As always, enjoyed this very much!
A pretty, peaceful place. It is good to see even though there are old graves it is not overgrown or abandoned. I wonder if the broken coffins could be due to wet ground & settling which could make the caskets fall & disintegrate. The ivy is pretty on the mausoleums & stone but sadly it is very destructive. Thank you for another excellent video. ❤
I was also wondering how the coffins get into such disrepair being in the mausoleums. Thank you and GV for taking the time to do these videos. It keeps these peoples memories alive.
I think the the last one has happened from decay and collapse. The weight of the top coffins on the others have caused the stacks to collapse as they decay from weather and time.
When I see dates like 1862 and such, I think about what was going on in my country during that time. My ancestors were fighting and a few died, while serving in the Union Army. It puts things in perspective for me. Memento Mori.
What a great old place to explore. You and GV certainly find some gems. I always wonder how the coffins in a mausoleum get so messed up. The straw is a mystery.
I think it is just a matter of the dampness and the fact that these masoleums are not made perfectly air tight. Also these buildings hold the remains of the dearly departed and with that comes a multitude of different things that happen organically. I don't know if we will ever know what happens inside some of these masoleums. It is so hard to believe that many masoleums have been ransacked without somebody's knowledge. It is perplexing and sad but I still love this part of Irish history. Thank you Sue. BTW, you skipped over a headstone I was so hoping you would read ... I will get you back! 🤣😂🤣 ♥️☘️🇮🇪
Imagine someone prowling around that cemetery in the middle of the night, intending mischief... just as something gave way in that mausoleum and dumped the coffins in the middle. I'm sure it would have made quite the ruckus and sent whoever was there to hear it running away and in need of new pants XD
Thank You Sue! It's a very beautiful mausoleums from 19 th century. The fact that everything inside is destroyed - the result of these burials being stolen. I'm very curious how Nowember 1 st got to you? I was at my mothers grave, I lit a candle and I prayed.
13:35 - I think the letters have been wrongly re-blacked, and it once said on 'war service'. May be I'm wrong though. Thanks for showing us another beautiful and interesting graveyard.
Beautiful countryside. The cemetery is very interesting, especially the mausoleums. Do you think it possible that the coffins were stacked one on top of the other for some reason, and just fell over on their own, or do you suspect vandalism? Great video, thank you very much Sue and GV. Have a great day. 😊
So there’s a possibility cool reason for the straw and a less boring answer (I’m basing this on English funeral practices but I’ve a feeling it would have been common between our countries). Boring reason! The coffin may have used straw as the padding of the mattress and/or a straw mat that was placed underneath to capture the let’s say liquids of human. I think this is the most likely reason especially as it’s mausoleum burials, as it would help with the smell and liquids. More interesting answer: straw was used to aid a person to escape the coffin without causing them further harm, as it acted as a soft padding. It was also used to give the potentially buried alive person warmth. Most of the time these coffins had a hole cut in the lid and a rope tied round the allegedly dead persons arm and the other to a bell so they could ring for help. Taphophobia (fear of being buried alive) was especially common during the 1800s and some of the coffin patients are well let’s say eye opening! Mausoleum burials of those with this fear tended to include some way to escape the coffin and a copy of the crypt keys would be left inside to enable the poor soul to escape. On a side note in England it was traditional to lay a blanket of straw over a coffin that was being buried to protect it and to dull the sound of the soil as it was being placed on top. I think I like the idea that the straw was used to keep the body warm for its eternal rest, but the farmers daughter in me can’t get past how pokey straw is !
Yes, I have found mausoleums with the chain still attached if a person was buried alive, crazy right? I think it was old custom to bury with straw as you said, for padding and leakage
The coffins may have gotten that way because of placing new one on top of very old ones. The old coffins could not hold the weight. The straw may have been brought in by animals.
One of my family names is Daugherty, the Doherty mausoleum is the closest I’ve seen in name in all of your videos. From what I can find my family came from County Donegal. That mausoleum with all the destroyed coffins looks as though it has been in a tornado. Of course I know you don’t have tornadoes.
I could imagine that the coffins have stood on a wooden shelf, that was rotten and then the weight of the coffins could no longer carry and collapsed together with its load. The straw could have served as a base in the coffins. Instead of soft pillows, they just took straw and then covered with fabric. A dead man no longer notice ...
It looked like they were stacked up on each other and whatever was holding it up collapsed after a certain period of time. Luckily the casket nor grave is as important as your soul. Hopefully they are at peace with Lord. May the souls of the faithfully departed continue to RIP
The strange tall object at 11:28 looks like a whale bone, whalers in the 18th century often brought back the bones which were used for various things, including grave markers.
THANK YOU THANK YOU for the map! ❤❤ The trowel and builder’s square symbols on the Sharkey/Doherty carved stone are Masonic symbols. There was more than one coffin with straw in it at the end. Is putting straw in coffins an actual thing?
Lovely graveyard thankyou and you deserve more likes ,why dont more people hit the thumbs up plz give sue more love for what she does , she and gv bring us awsome content to watch its only a little ask 🫶🙏
@leeannemccaskie1867 thanks so much
@@leeannemccaskie1867 I agree
Loved seeing the new plaques that give names. Well kept up! Thanks Sue!
You're most welcome Liz x
Beautiful mausoleums, but sad they are in decay, especially the coffins. Thank you for another great video and tour.
So nice of you
I just love how green the grass is in Ireland.
I am blessed 🙌
Mausoleums and Celtic Crosses...you've made my day Sue! Hope you had your wellies on👢😉. Take care, Deb of Oz XXX
I did Deb ❤️
Those mausoleums look like little mansions. Must of been very expensive. Thanks for taking us with you to explore.
They do look better than some houses
Thanks for watching!
They do
This cemetery looks like it’s still being well cared for. Family still remembers those buried here.
They do, how the drive that lane, it's crazy, grass in the middle with room barely enough for 1 car
Always enjoy your videos and thanks for this tour. Take care.
Thanks, you too!
Another great video Sue. Thank you for sharing your finds in the vaults as well as out. I really look forward to these videos they are so fascinating. Much respect ❤❤❤❤❤
You are so welcome!
My guess would be that the coffins were stacked on some kind of wooden shelving that has since deteriorated, tumbling them all into a pile.
Yes, or on top of older ones that rotted away
Some of the vaults looked more like entrances to bunkers than actual vaults. So sad to see so many forever forgotten. Your son is a wonderful young man. I am sure you are very proud ❤
Very proud, thank you ❤️
I always look forward to your videos and GV. Thank you for this beautiful walk in the beautiful green cemetery. It's so old, but so beautiful!
Thank you ❤️
Love your videos of all those beautiful graveyards. Its like stepping back in time. Thank you Sue, keep on filming. 😊Greetings from the Netherlands. 🇳🇱
In Co. Clare is really feels like that, the villages are like we stepped back in time too
How well built are they.. hardly any cement, just perfectly cut stone. Beautiful place and like GV said peaceful... Perfect place for a camper van.. I'd say the coffins fell over and that's how they landed. Just slipped more over time perhaps. Fantastic video Sue
I hope so and not vandalised
@SerenitySueGraveyards nah it looks like they just fell.. the bottom one gave in and they just fell to the side
Beautiful graveyard, ✨ Ireland has a specific charm. Thank you for a very respectful, reverent tour. RIP to each soul within. 🙏🏻🦁📜👼🏼
You're welcome
Very gorgeous cemetary, it love the stone work on the one Mausaleum, ❤ and as always the stone walls I always love, I think how many who carried and placed each stone, it's beautiful there. Thanx for the walk and 📚 reading and remembering those gone❤😊
Thank you very much!
Beautiful Irish countryside! A pleasure to look at. Refreshing and relaxing.
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you so much, for making it possible for me to see the most beautiful beautiful mausoleum. Thank you for all that you always do 💐🌷🌹🌺😘🥰🙋🏽♀️🇵🇷🇺🇸
You're welcome 😊
I love looking into the mausoleums and crypts with you. It’s fascinating to see how people end up.
I hope that all who deserve it are resting in peace.
Well said Sheila 👏
What a beautiful graveyard that is. Those mausoleums are lovely, love the stonework. Such a shame that one was destroyed, don’t know how anyone could do that. Thank you for taking me along. Please take care
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you
Such a beautiful place to rest. It's nice to see that there are families that still visit and it's still cared for despite the harsh weather, which has paid a toll on some of the coffins. Thank you for showing us this beautiful place Sue ❤❤❤xx t 🇦🇺❤
Thank you ❤️
Thank you Sue for another interesting walk.
My pleasure 😊
Very nice peaceful place. Looks like people are taking care of it. Wonder if the trowel was for Masons. Great video Sue. Thanks!
A few people have said it is
Thank you guys, great video. Cheers from New Zealand, travelling to Ireland next year, so many flying hours my daughter works in London looking forward to it
That is awesome! You will enjoy it
The two Downes families that are connected to each other just made me tear up. They are absolutely beautiful and such a sweet gesture. ♥️🥺 Just saddened by their condition inside.
It is sad, the little building is beautiful
Some of my favourite videos from yourself and GV have been from County Clare...Never disappoints..😊❤
Mine too, I love it there
Beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
You are so welcome!
Beautiful countryside and so well kept. Thanks for a great video Sue x
You're very welcome 🙏
Such a lovely location thank you Sue❤❤
You are so welcome
Thank you Sue!
You are so welcome!
In the foggy foggy dew….
As formidable as the buildings look, you never know what the insides may hold. Thank you, Sue.
You are very welcome 🙏
Thank you sue for sharing a very interesting Cemetery and mausoleums.
Glad you enjoyed it
Great video! Thank you Sue for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
For mausoleums looking to be sealed so well- how the coffins could be helter skelter inside is such a mystery! I would think that at each burial- care would be taken to stack them carefully. We’ll never know! Being from the US- it is such a puzzle to figure out how each cemetery has been planned & laid out. Was there a plan or did they just start burying folks wherever!? Your amazing videos have brought so many questions to mind- especially how they maneuvered around the grounds to bury a new departed loved one. A mystery, indeed!
Thank you ❤️
Hi Sue! Hope your doing well my friend! Great work! Loving all your videos...just trying to catch up!
Thanks Kris ❤️
@@SerenitySueGraveyards Hi again Sue. During World War I, many soldiers died from exposure to chemical weapons, infectious diseases, and trench conditions. Myles O'Mahony died after being ill for two months with acute bronchitis and chronic bronchial asthma as a result exposure while on duty.
Thanks so much Kris, it makes sense now ❤️
Stunning place, wonderful country.
I am truly blessed to live here 🙏
great video........as always.....👍👋👋👋👋
Thank you so much 👍
Must admit 🙏 you both find some amazing places x
Thank you so much
God bless you both and see you soon ❤❤
@@MaryDiaz-q1j ❤️❤️
G’day Sue greetings from Tasmania I think that the coffins are in a bad condition is that the body when it starts to break down fills with gas methane ect and they can explode they have vent holes for the gases to escape but if you have more than two that is a real build up. The mosuleams excuse the spelling are beautifully built by true craftsman and that dry stone wall is something else, it’s a pity that they don’t poison that Ivy it destroys buildings it wouldn’t take that much. Thank you Sue for filming this one it’s a beautiful place to be laid down in in the beautiful Irish country side, look after yourself God Bless John PS that straight monument looks like an aircraft propeller?
G’day to you ! also from Tasmania! Thank you for the explanation as to why the mausoleums are in disarray, and you’re right, the singular looking grave-marker could be a representative of a propeller. I agree with the ivy being a problem too.
Thank you ❤️
Thanks
Thanks again for another trip through history. Love to you and yours.from Australia
Glad you enjoyed it
I do enjoy watching both your channels. I do not understand, though, how so many people can be in one grave. Be safe in your travels. Greetings from Missouri USA
In Ireland we don't use grave liners, coffins on top of each other and side buy side
Beautiful area! Interesting vaults.
Thanks Don ❤️
Thanks Sue good video!
You are so welcome
This cemetery looks bleak at first glance, but as per , the love and respect for our dearly departed loved ones, warms and shines through. Thank you Sue.
Thank you ❤️
Those are beautiful mausoleums! The tumbled coffins and straw are a mystery.
I love the little mausoleums, like the old Irish cottages that you see dotted around the country
Such a shame sue,looks like the coffins were just tossed in there Willy nilly,so sad to see,another top number ,all the graves and mauseleums in their natural Beauty,May all R.I.P,take care ,safe travels to you both,🙏🙏👋👋👍👍🇦🇺
Thanks Peter ❤️
Beautiful site. Thank you for taking us with you. I wonder if there was a shelf for the coffins that broke? What a sad state for them. ❤❤❤
Definitely a possibility
Love your videos Sue! Thank you! ❤
You are so welcome!
Thank you Sue very enjoyable trip round loved it 💐💐💐💐
Glad you enjoyed it
Great cemetery m. Thanks for sharing ❤love you
Glad you enjoyed
Sue, it looked to me like boards holding short shelving had collasped down. Dumping everything to the middle. Putting older shelved coffins on top of the newer ones. Watched it several times and ut seemed to be a plausible happening. As always, enjoyed this very much!
That's probably what happened here, thanks
From my reading I think Exposure on war was an early term used to cover symptoms of PTSD, hope that helps
Yes, thanks very much ❤️
A pretty, peaceful place. It is good to see even though there are old graves it is not overgrown or abandoned. I wonder if the broken coffins could be due to wet ground & settling which could make the caskets fall & disintegrate. The ivy is pretty on the mausoleums & stone but sadly it is very destructive. Thank you for another excellent video. ❤
You're welcome 😊
Thank you. Watching from Missouri
Thanks for watching!
Great video Miss Sue 😊😊😊
Thank you! 😃
I was also wondering how the coffins get into such disrepair being in the mausoleums.
Thank you and GV for taking the time to do these videos. It keeps these peoples memories alive.
A lot of damp and water, plus the coffins rot over time
Beautiful Area Sue ...Love From Kentucky
Thanks for watching!
I think the the last one has happened from decay and collapse. The weight of the top coffins on the others have caused the stacks to collapse as they decay from weather and time.
Yes, I think you're right
Thanks again! What an awesome place.
Thanks Sheryl
great tour guide sue a blast from the long ago past
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks!
Thanks so much I appreciate it
Love the video sue from Australia love it love . Good work out today
Thank you ❤️
Such a beautiful and peaceful place❤
Thanks ❤️
very original tumbs and mausoleums.. very interisting ...
Thanks ❤️
When I see dates like 1862 and such, I think about what was going on in my country during that time. My ancestors were fighting and a few died, while serving in the Union Army. It puts things in perspective for me. Memento Mori.
Thank you ❤️
Love from lndonesia 😍
❤️❤️
1:20 St. Peter with the keys to the Kingdom and the Book of Life. 🙏
@@bobbylee2853 thank you
What a great old place to explore. You and GV certainly find some gems. I always wonder how the coffins in a mausoleum get so messed up. The straw is a mystery.
Thank you toms ❤️
I love the rustic look of the mausoleums. Any idea of where the church once stood?
No idea unfortunately
What a nice and quiet graveyard. Too bad for the damaged coffins.
Thank you ❤️
I think it is just a matter of the dampness and the fact that these masoleums are not made perfectly air tight. Also these buildings hold the remains of the dearly departed and with that comes a multitude of different things that happen organically. I don't know if we will ever know what happens inside some of these masoleums. It is so hard to believe that many masoleums have been ransacked without somebody's knowledge. It is perplexing and sad but I still love this part of Irish history. Thank you Sue. BTW, you skipped over a headstone I was so hoping you would read ... I will get you back! 🤣😂🤣 ♥️☘️🇮🇪
Thanks Janet ❤️
My father's family came to the USA from Miltown Malbay. He was born here. Surname Callinan and Murtaugh (Murtha here in America).
We were in the village to do a video but the one in the town centre was locked up, what a shame
Creepy Mausoleum season 💀
Saint.Peter is holding the book of judgment & the keys to the kingdom of Heaven .
Beautiful and respectful video @Serenity Sue
Thanks ❤️
Why are there usually holes in the doors?
Love your videos Sue. Love from The USA.
I think they are vents
@@SerenitySueGraveyards Thank You Sue.
❤️❤️
Wonder why they put those big iron ring handles on the mausoleum..Great vid as usual Sue 🍀
That's how they would open them up with, they must take lots man power to open them
@ sure would but then why would they wanna open them again
Imagine someone prowling around that cemetery in the middle of the night, intending mischief... just as something gave way in that mausoleum and dumped the coffins in the middle. I'm sure it would have made quite the ruckus and sent whoever was there to hear it running away and in need of new pants XD
Omg absolutely
Thank You Sue!
It's a very beautiful mausoleums from 19 th century. The fact that everything inside is destroyed - the result of these burials being stolen.
I'm very curious how Nowember 1 st got to you? I was at my mothers grave, I lit a candle and I prayed.
We remembered our loved ones who have passed
@SerenitySueGraveyards in this video is my mother grave on the cemetery in my city th-cam.com/video/DgbzqPAgXlQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=SrEZOoip-_r82kwS
13:35 - I think the letters have been wrongly re-blacked, and it once said on 'war service'. May be I'm wrong though. Thanks for showing us another beautiful and interesting graveyard.
It could be, I've tried to look into it and there is a mention of exposure on war, is like PTSD
Beautiful countryside. The cemetery is very interesting, especially the mausoleums. Do you think it possible that the coffins were stacked one on top of the other for some reason, and just fell over on their own, or do you suspect vandalism? Great video, thank you very much Sue and GV. Have a great day. 😊
I think they were on shelves or on top of each other, the coffins rot away below
@SerenitySueGraveyards OK, thank you very much for getting back to me Sue. Take care 🙂
It looks to me that the bottom coffins could have rotted out from underneath the upper coffins causing them to collapse all over each other. 🤔
It must be, or someone else said the shelves collapsed
🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀
So there’s a possibility cool reason for the straw and a less boring answer (I’m basing this on English funeral practices but I’ve a feeling it would have been common between our countries).
Boring reason! The coffin may have used straw as the padding of the mattress and/or a straw mat that was placed underneath to capture the let’s say liquids of human. I think this is the most likely reason especially as it’s mausoleum burials, as it would help with the smell and liquids.
More interesting answer: straw was used to aid a person to escape the coffin without causing them further harm, as it acted as a soft padding. It was also used to give the potentially buried alive person warmth.
Most of the time these coffins had a hole cut in the lid and a rope tied round the allegedly dead persons arm and the other to a bell so they could ring for help.
Taphophobia (fear of being buried alive) was especially common during the 1800s and some of the coffin patients are well let’s say eye opening! Mausoleum burials of those with this fear tended to include some way to escape the coffin and a copy of the crypt keys would be left inside to enable the poor soul to escape.
On a side note in England it was traditional to lay a blanket of straw over a coffin that was being buried to protect it and to dull the sound of the soil as it was being placed on top.
I think I like the idea that the straw was used to keep the body warm for its eternal rest, but the farmers daughter in me can’t get past how pokey straw is !
Yes, I have found mausoleums with the chain still attached if a person was buried alive, crazy right? I think it was old custom to bury with straw as you said, for padding and leakage
The coffins may have gotten that way because of placing new one on top of very old ones. The old coffins could not hold the weight. The straw may have been brought in by animals.
Thanks ❤️
There are 7,762 native american burial sites in the state of Iowa.
One of my family names is Daugherty, the Doherty mausoleum is the closest I’ve seen in name in all of your videos. From what I can find my family came from County Donegal. That mausoleum with all the destroyed coffins looks as though it has been in a tornado. Of course I know you don’t have tornadoes.
Thanks Hazel, maybe the coffins collapsed, but it's in a bad way. It's good to see your family name
I could imagine that the coffins have stood on a wooden shelf, that was rotten and then the weight of the coffins could no longer carry and collapsed together with its load. The straw could have served as a base in the coffins. Instead of soft pillows, they just took straw and then covered with fabric. A dead man no longer notice ...
So true
Exposure on war. Never have I ever heard anything like that.
Me either but could it be PTSD?
@SerenitySueGraveyards Sue, I didn't think about that. I was thinking injuries.
Thanks if not for your work we probably would not contemplate on our on final wishes and realizing just how short and exact things really are !!
Thanks ❤️
I like the stone work also on that masusolism Sue
Yes, in the west of Ireland all the walls in the fields are like this too
It looked like they were stacked up on each other and whatever was holding it up collapsed after a certain period of time. Luckily the casket nor grave is as important as your soul. Hopefully they are at peace with Lord. May the souls of the faithfully departed continue to RIP
Couldn't agree more
It looks like the timber shelving has given way, and the coffins have all tumbled down as a result.
Yes, I think that's probably it
The strange tall object at 11:28 looks like a whale bone, whalers in the 18th century often brought back the bones which were used for various things, including grave markers.
Oh, I've never heard of that, thanks
Hi Sue, what is the oldest grave you have ever found, anything back 1400's
Yes, old effigies in churches were if I remember right 13th century
thank you Sue, strange that straw in the coffin ?
It is, I wonder why?
@@SerenitySueGraveyardscould have been used as stuffing? Without being to nasty
Possibly to keep the crypt dry?
Maybe for absorption of bodily fluids ???
@@cherylschantz9893but then it would be on the ground and not in the coffin
Maybe the disarray is caused by the way they add newer coffins by just shoving them in through the small openings?
It's definitely possible
💚
THANK YOU THANK YOU for the map! ❤❤
The trowel and builder’s square symbols on the Sharkey/Doherty carved stone are Masonic symbols.
There was more than one coffin with straw in it at the end. Is putting straw in coffins an actual thing?
It used to be, not now, thank you 😊
I guess time marches on, no matter what.
It sure does...
I think St Peter is holding the book of judgement. 🍀
Yes, i think you're right