Aghadoe (

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: ''Achadh an Dá Eó'') is a large

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overlooking the town and lakes of

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. Officially it is also a parish, although the parish is larger than the area normally associated with the name. The area is famous for its views of the lakes and islands, including

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. The ruins of 13th century

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and of Aghadoe Cathedral, an old Romanesque church in ruins, make the spot popular with

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s and archaeologists.

History

Aghadoe takes its name from ''Achadh an Dá Eó'', which is Irish for "the place of the two yew trees". During the

Irish Famine The Great Famine ( ga, an Gorta Mór ), also known within Ireland as the Great Hunger or simply the Famine and outside Ireland as the Irish Potato Famine, was a period of starvation and disease in Ireland from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a h ...

, 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 was small (less than one acre), with a corner reserved for burials from Killarney's workhouse. It was "one of three where paupers are interred". From 1846 to 1849 Mackay estimates that close to 2,000 famine victims were buried at Aghadoe. They have "all eeninterred in one very small corner" of the cemetery. The "first glance shows the traveller in the midst of what a Golgotha he stands. In the wretched corner set apart for the paupers the earth is covered with deal planks and fresh remnants of coffins in shocking profusion".

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* ''AI939.1 Kl. Repose of Aed son of Mael Pátraic, abbot of Achad Deó.'' * ''AI1010.5 Mael Suthain Ua Cerbaill , eminent sage of Ireland, rested in Christ in Achad Deó.''

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