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McGredy developed the new rose variety, 'Dublin Bay' in 1969 from stock parents, pink climbing rose 'Bantry Bay' (McGredy IV, 1967) and red climbing rose, 'Altissimo' (Delbard, 1966). The new cultivar was introduced into Ireland by his nursery, Samuel McGredy and Son in 1975. [5] [6]
Sheep's Head, also known as Muntervary (Irish: Rinn Mhuintir Bháire), is the headland at the end of the Sheep's Head peninsula situated between Bantry Bay and Dunmanus Bay in County Cork, Ireland. The peninsula is popular with walkers, and the Sheep's Head Way is an 88 km long-distance trail which follows old tracks and roads around the ...
Aboriginal occupation of the area is evident through the abundance of middens along the foreshore.. The Warringah Shire Council minutes of 4 January 1907 reveal how unpopular was the government's proposal to take over Bantry Bay, which was a popular recreation area for many residents of Sydney, and had been visited regularly by day trippers since the 1840s, but by 1910 work on the construction ...
A 21-year-old rock climber fell to his death last weekend in Wyoming’s Devils Tower National Monument, while his partner was later rescued, authorities announced.
Bantry in Olden Days: Richard S. Harrison (Published by Author) J. Kevin Hourihane, Town Growth in West Cork: Bantry 1600–1900 in JCHAS (1977), LXXXii, no 236, 83–97. Wild Gardens: The Lost Demesnes of Bantry Bay Nigel Everett, Hafod Press. An Irish Arcadia: The Historic Gardens of Bantry House Nigel Everett, Hafod Press 1999 ISBN 0-9535995-0-7
Bantry Bay is a ria, a bay formed from a drowned river valley as a result of a relative rise in sea level.The bay is a deep (approx 40 metres in the middle) and large natural bay, with one of the longest inlets in southwest Ireland, bordered on the north by Beara Peninsula, which separates Bantry Bay from Kenmare Bay.
The park was created in 2000, the centennial year of the Wisconsin state park system, and named after then-Governor Tommy Thompson. The main parcel creating the park is the former 1,987-acre (8.04 km 2 ) Paust Woods Lake Resort and about 200 acres (0.81 km 2 ) of wild-looking lakefront bought from Wisconsin Public Service Corporation on Caldron ...
Bantry Bay is an affluent suburb of Cape Town in the Western Cape Province, South Africa, situated on the slopes of Lion's Head and overlooking a rocky coastline. Its neighboring suburbs are Sea Point and Clifton. It was originally called Botany Bay after a botanical garden that was planted here for the cultivation of medicinal herbs.