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Aghadoe takes its name from Achadh an Dá Eó, which is Irish for "the place of the two yew trees". [5] During the Irish Famine, the abbey or church of Aghadoe's churchyard was the designated burial site for famine and fever victims. London editor Charles Mackay travelled to Killarney in the summer of 1849 and notes that the churchyard itself ...
Some tall buildings are multi-use and have a hotel occupying the building's uppermost floors; such hotels are known as the highest hotels in the world. The world's highest hotel is the Rosewood Guangzhou located on the top floors of the 111-story Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre in China , soaring to 530 meters at its highest point.
The "Aghadoe Crosier" from Aghadoe was made of walrus ivory and carved in the Urnes style of the Vikings. The carvings are similar to those on the jambs of Romanesque doorway to the cathedral. [10] Another crosier, possibly associated with Aghadoe, was found in the lakes in 1867 by a fisherman who thought it was a salmon. [11]
A rendering of a 180-room hotel proposed in Seaside Heights. It describes the Seaside hotel as filling a "lodging shortage. The current area has no hotel options in an area that has a 65,000 ...
The hotel where Stephen “tWitch” Boss was found dead is temporarily not renting out rooms in the wake of his death, Us Weekly can reveal. Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss Through the Years: His Life ...
The Las Vegas Police Department released graphic new photos that provide a chilling look inside Stephen Paddock's 32nd-floor Mandalay Bay Hotel room, from which he committed the worst mass ...
Pacific Heights is a 1990 American psychological thriller film directed by John Schlesinger and written by Daniel Pyne. The film stars Melanie Griffith , Matthew Modine , and Michael Keaton . Pacific Heights was released in the United States on September 28, 1990.
The Hotel Margaret was a building in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, New York. Designed by Frank Freeman and completed in 1889, the hotel was the locality's first skyscraper and for many years remained its tallest building. It was destroyed by a 1980 fire that started when a person who was using taping compound left a heater on and forgot to turn ...