Visit Swords Town, Ireland - November 2017 (4K)
Visit Swords Town, Ireland - November 2017 (4K)
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SWORDS (from Irish: Sord or Sord Cholmcille) is the county town of Fingal and a key satellite of Greater Dublin, Ireland. The town is the closest settlement to Dublin Airport, and is home to one of Greater Dublin's larger shopping centres, and extensive other retail facilities, and a range of industries. Lying on the Ward River, it features a restored medieval castle, a holy well from which it takes its name, and a round tower.
The name Swords is also applicable to a townland, to the civil parish and to the local electoral area.
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Visit Swords Castle, Swords, Ireland - November 2017 (4K)
Visit Swords Castle, Swords, Ireland - November 2017 (4K)
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SWORDS CASTLE was built as the manorial residence of the first Anglo-Norman Archbishop of Dublin, John Comyn, around 1200 or a little later in Swords, just north of Dublin. The castle was never strong in the military sense, but is unusual in that the perimeter wall of 305 metres is far larger than normal for an Irish castle. The walls enclose a large pentagonal walled area of nearly 6,000 m² (1.5 acres) with a tower on the north, probably the Constable's residence, and an impressive gateway complex on the south. Within the castle were the Archbishop's apartments, apartments for knights and a banqueting hall. The warder may have occupied the quarters to the left of the gate, while to the right was the janitor's room with the priest's room overhead. The adjoining chapel, built in the late 13th century, was probably used as the Archbishop's private oratory. Other buildings, recorded for an inquisition in 1326, have now vanished, including the great hall on the east side of the enclosure.
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OPENING TIMES
• Swords Castle & Courtyard is open to visitors, throughout the winter, Monday to Saturday 09.30 - 16:00
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Swords round tower - oldest round tower
Oldest round tower
St Columbia's Church, Swords, Ireland - November 2017 (4K)
St Columbia's Church, Swords, Ireland - November 2017 (4K)
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This Georgian building is the focus of an ancient site where there's been Christian worship and witness for more than fifteen centuries.
As well as the Church, the complex includes the Victorian Lodge, the Medieval Bell Tower, and the Round Tower. The Round Tower dates back more than a thousand years to the monastery that Saint Columba founded here, circa 550 AD.
Ireland's greatest High King, Brian Boru, was waked here after his death at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 AD.
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History Tour of St Colmcille's Graveyard Swords,
Bernadette Marks Tour of St Colmcille's Graveyard Swords Some very interesting History of Swords people,
Video, Bernard Lenehan Swords, for Swords Historical Society,
Produced by Juanita Dizon, (C) 2016
Heritage
Aspects of Fingal's rich heritage and long history are encapsulated in the many famous buildings, churches, castles, great houses and archaeological sites located in the area. The area boasts a wealth of monuments, some dating as far back as 5,000 years, spanning various periods of history from Christian civilizations and the Viking occupation to the diversity of Anglo-Irish history through to modern day Dublin.
Christianity bestowed Dublin with a wealth of monasteries, churches and towers. Some of the finer examples include the 6th century Lusk Round Tower with its attached tower house of 16th Century origin. Swords Round Tower in the grounds of the Church of Ireland in Swords is all that remains of an early Christian foundation. St. Doulagh’s Church, Kinsealy, occupies the site of a 7th century monastic settlement founded by St. Doulagh.
The twelve Fingal Martello Towers, which once formed a coastal defence system against invasion along Dublin’s shores during Napoleonic times, still present vivid reminders of that era.
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Round Tower - Dublin goal for James McCarthy
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Viking Age grave - The excavation
Some of the pictures I took during the excavation of a viking age grave I discovered 1st of January 2014.
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Staute with Irish flag on it flying on top of building. CU Irish flag. Various statues on skyline & on street level. CU Notice Government Bldng. GVs buildings. GV Customs House across river. CU Notice 'Four Courts' - Dublin.' GV Two buildings. View across Country with herd of Deer in distance. Notice CU 'Howth Harbour' GV Small craft. 'Round Tower - Swords' GV church with graves. GV Protestant Cathedral - Dublin. GV River Liffey at Lucan. CU printed notice headed Irish republic - to People of Ireland. GV Big Palace. Home of Devalaras Palace. Flag flying on top of building.
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Guide Limerick; King John's Castle; Swords, Battles and Feisty Women
Take our walking guide to King Johns Castle Limerick and meet the merry blacksmith, strong knight, rebel woman, rebel soldier and more..
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So behind me is King John's castle and it's a major asset to Limerick city because it has 800 years of history in these walls.
It marks the site where the Vikings first came. And they used this area to pillage the whole countryside. They went to all the religious settlements and they wreaked havoc in this area. And then they were overtaken by the other Vikings, the Dublin Vikings. And then eventually the Normans came along around the 12th century. And in 1200 the Lord of Limerick, his name was John, he decided to build this castle and that's where it got its name
We're going to be exploring what happened then and after that when we go inside this beautiful piece of history.
So, what's your name? Igor Sparks is my name. I'm the village blacksmith here. In King John's Castle. Here we are. And so blacksmithing would have been important back then ....Well t'was very important if you wanted to go into battle and have a good old sword like. Because if you went in with a very bad sword, your sword could crack. You could be stabbed to death. Okay. So it was my job to make sure they got a good quality sword.
So this would have been a typical helmet. It's Viking times. Viking Times. Right. Like that idea about the horns coming out of it, that's only Hollywood.
I thought you said normal, Normans. I'm not good at the names either. That's if you're on horseback. It's not easy to see there. No its not. So they have a little padding in it. Can you see? Your hair is in the way.
My hair is in the way. You're not allowed have long hair in the Norman days.
No, t'would be all tied back.
So you'd have your sword. And you'd be fighting away. And you'd be stabbing. Like they used to stop. You couldn't really chop his head off with this. You'd do stabbing with it, like. Stabbing in the arms. Till the blood came out.
I don't think I'd be able to stab anyone with this on my head.
No, you wouldn't. You'd need the Viking one probably.
Yeah. I think I prefer the Viking style. Yes. Feels pretty safe though
Yes, it is.
Not easy to walk around if you're scared, you know.
Still, if I was going to the shop now late at night and I was wearing one of these, they'd be afraid to come after me.
True.
Or one of these as well. Now if you were caught. Do you see that big round building over there. Don't know if I can point it to you. That was the mint. That's where they made their money years ago. They were so poor that time they used to shave little bits of the coins to make their own money and they'd bring it to the forge here and I'd melt it down. Do you know? Well what would happen is, if you were caught doing that, right, your arm was cut off if you were a man.
Wow.
And your arm was cut off if you were a woman. But if you were a man, you were brought up here as well and they'd heat up these hot tongs here. And the family jewels of a man would be removed with these. They'd be snipped off.
God.
Yeah. I hate telling that story but I have to tell the truth as well like. There's no point in painting it as a romantic age. Not to get caught. I wonder would it work today?
Hi Simon, could you tell us your role here? I'm portraying a Norman Knight and I talk and interact with the visitors. Behind me is my campaign tent which is typical of where a Norman soldier of high rank and status would have pitched tent, maybe drawn maps, planned battle, planned strategies for the day.
So my name is Conor and a 1642 Siege soldier. I'm here defending the castle walls during the sieges of Limerick in the 1640s. I'm Ailish and I'm a siege woman during the 1642 siege. And during the siege the women were remembered for fighting alongside the men but not in the conventional way. We would have gotten big stones or rocks and boiling water and boiling oil and we would have made our way up to the castle walls and thrown it down at people. We were pretty feisty.
The English won in the end. Cromwell and his armies eventually conquered Ireland and the English authority and the crown was fully restored to a certain extent.
So, with a thousand years of history behind us, its good bye from King John's Castle.
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Atlantis technologies. Towers and Airfleet of ancient people.
Atlantis technologies. Towers and Airfleet of ancient people
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Ancient towers could be used for many purposes. Although they may look not very technological they have some strange things like:
Most books will tell you that the towers were places of refuge for the monks to hide from Vikings raiding Ireland. They were, no doubt, bell towers and lookouts for approaching raiders, but the speculations that monks escaped raiders, who no doubt knew how to smoke bees out of hives or climb the 9 to 15 feet to the door, borders on the ludicrous. Round towers are perfectly designed to be totally useless for hiding people or church treasures.....Another strange thing about the towers is the dirt that fills the base below the high doors. Each door has a different level of dirt filling the base as if they were tuned like a pipe organ....I had long postulated that the towers were powerful amplifiers of radio resonance from the atmosphere generated by lightning flashes around the world.....The round towers proved to be powerful amplifiers in the alpha brain wave region, 2 to 24 Hz, in the electrical anesthesia region, 1000 to 3000 Hz, and the electronic induction heating region, 5000 Hz to 1000 KHz....It is fascinating that just above the surface of the ground to about 2 to 4 feet up there is a null of atmospheric frequencies that get stronger and stronger until at 9 to 15 feet above the surface they are extremely strong. The Irish monks were well aware of this for that is where they built their high doors. At every tower we measured there was a direct correlation between tower door height and the strongest waves.....That the highly amplified waves occur in the meditative and electrical anesthesia portion of the electromagnetic spectrum is of utmost significance. In 1963, G. Walter researched brain EEG waves from 0.5 to 3 Hz (Delta region) and found anti-infectious effects. There is an elegant but short list of research projects demonstrating the beneficial effects of low ELF wavelengths on sick people.
They can also be used as multipurpose device. Check out my video to find out how the ancient people could have used them.
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