Wedding video shoot locations
Hoare Abbey Cashel – Abbey Video Productions
Wedding Photography and Video-shoot locations around Cashel, Co Tipperary
As a popular wedding videographer in Tipperary and Kilkenny and further afield, I get asked about the best places for wedding photography and video shoots after the service. As I live in Cashel I would have to recommend the Hoare Abbey just up from where I live. Hoare Abbey is a Cistercian monastery, and most of the visible remains date to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. You can still see the well preserved remains of a refectory, a large church with nave, chancel, and transepts all in good condition. Each of the transepts has a small chapel, and you can see the remains of an Archbishop’s tomb just north of the chancel. Ideal Wedding video shoot locations
Rock of Cashel – Abbey Video Productions
The cloisters are in a very unusual position. Usually the cloister is positioned to the south of the church – however at Hoare Abbey they are positioned to the north. This is possibly because the Rock of Cashel is so prominent to the north, they wanted to maximise its impact. With all these fantastic features you will be spoiled for choice.
The Rock of Cashel is also a great photo opportunity. Towering over the town from its perch on a 200 foot high outcrop of limestone, the Rock was once the seat of the Kings of Munster. It was visited by St. Patrick in 450 and Brian Boru was crowned King of Ireland here in the 10th century. Granted to the church in the 1100s by the O’Brien clan king, the Rock became the seat of the archbishop and it was at this time that Cormac’s Chapel was built. In 1647 the Rock was ransacked by Cromwellian forces under the leadership of Lord Inchiquin.
As a local Videographer I have filmed some stunning wedding videos in these old ruins, and if any bride is planning her wedding in the area and would like to see some footage please let me know and I can arrange for you to view it.
Hoare Abbey cashel – Abbey Video Productions
There are a lot more fantastic photographic locations in and around Cashel / Tipperary areas. Ardmayle Church is one that springs to mind as I filmed a wedding there just last Friday.
Ardmayle Church – Abbey Video Productions
The church and tower at Ardmayle have existed in one from or another since the middle of the 12th century. The first stone church was erected by the Normans in the 13th century under the auspices of the Knights Templar. The church was badly damaged in 1315 and after being renovated or rebuilt is was again badly damaged in 1581 during the Desmond rebellion. The church and tower would change hands
Ardmayle Church – Abbey Video Productions
on many occasions during the course of history with the Protestants eventually taking up permanent residence after the Catholic church moved to Nodstown (Boherlahan) in 1813. The Protestant community continued to worship in Ardmayle until the late 1950s when, due to dwindling numbers, they closed the church. The Grubb family continued to look after the building until the 1980s when the Ardmayle Heritage Society with the help of Sean Woodward of Cashel, Canon Morrissey and Fr. Feehan of Boherlahan took over the church and completely renovated it.
Thank you for time reading my blog and I hope its of some use to you when planning your wedding day. Coming next – locations around Kilkenny ! ~ Joe
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