The churchyard at Greyabbey. This is a wonderful, really atmospheric place, in a little village at the top of the Ards Penninsula - just a few miles outside Belfast. The abbey itself is crumbling and apparently unsafe to visit, but the graveyard is also well worth a visit - many of the gravestones are very old and quite beautiful.
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I'd love to meander around there for a day.
Seems very crowded - people were dying to get in? ;-)
Hello, this is my first comment, but not my first visit here, I visit your blog as often as I can, I love your country and I like your pictures a lot, especially those last ones. I wish I was there, you make me feel jealous :)
(Sorry if I made some mistakes, I'm french and my english is not very good)
How old is it? It looks like it's been abandoned for a century or so.
Nice photos. I like this very much.
thanks for visiting.
Mll, your English is great (much better than my French!)
oh, and Irina, I'm not sure how old the churchyard is, I saw some graves from the dating 1700s (you can see a tombstone dated 1683 here http://news.webshots.com/photo/1319289358051916786OYnPmw), and as far as I know it was still in use in the latter part of the 20th century. I don't know if there have been any recent burials there.
(The abbey itself was founded in 1193.)
Beautiful shots - I find graveyards really intriguing. I've been told that that's macabre, but I don't agree. I'm always fascinated by the fact that every one of the people lying there had a story. There is so much history in a graveyard, and so much to ponder on. This one looks particularly interesting.
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