South of the house he built a grotto surmounted by a tall stone pillar, a Brehon's Chair and a fanciful construction consisting of two great boulders, one balanced on top of the other, which has since been demolished.

Further down the northern slopes, lying in a housing estate near Marlay Park, is another portal tomb, known as the “ Brehon's Chair ”.

The name Brehon's Chair was given to the monument in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century when all such monuments were being ascribed to the Druids.

The portal tomb at Larch Hill and the Brehon's Chair are on privately-owned land.

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The Brehon's Chair is believed to have been the seat of Judgement of the Archdruid.

Similar to the UNESCO World Heritage Site at Newgrange, the Brehon's Chair passage tomb was once a place of astrological, spiritual, religious and ceremonial importance.

As one of the largest passage tombs in Ireland, the Brehon's Chair remained a landmark for the inhabitants of the area throughout the prehistoric and early historic period.

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Within the grounds, in a field visible from the road, is an ancient monument known as the Brehon's Chair, consisting of three tall slabs about nine feet high enclosing a small square space.

He also has lodgings in the Old Palace, Canterbury, located beside Canterbury Cathedral, where the Chair of St. Augustine sits.

Besides having the right to sit on a Curule Chair ( sella curulis ) and to wear a toga praetexta, the Curule Aediles also held the power to issue edicts ( jus edicendi ).

In 1984, he moved to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he was hired as a professor of psychology and was also appointed to the Walgreen Chair for the Study of Human Understanding.

In his time at university he also served as Chair of the Glasgow University Labour Club and President of the Glasgow University Union.

Fichte was made its rector and also the first Chair of Philosophy.

Several shorter-lived high stakes games also were attempted around the time of the millennium, such as Winning Lines, The Chair, and Greed.

Robinson has been Honorary President of Oxfam International since 2002 and of the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation EIUC since 2005, she is Chair of the International Institute for Environment and Development ( IIED ) and is also a founding member and Chair of the Council of Women World Leaders.

He also encouraged architecture, and the general improvement of Rome, where houses were razed to straighten and widen streets and where he had the opportunity to be a great patron for Gian Lorenzo Bernini: the decorations of the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, titular churches for several of the Chigi cardinals, the Scala Regia, the Chair of St. Peter in the Vatican Basilica.

He also serves on the boards of Aon Corporation, John Deere, the USO and holds the Colin L. Powell Chair for National Security, Leadership, Character and Ethics at the National Defense University.

He was also appointed to the Honorary Chair of the Deakin University Foundation.

At the same time, from 1922, Banach also headed the second Chair of Mathematics at University of Lwów.

Browning's first talkie was The Thirteenth Chair ( 1929 ), which was also released as a silent and starred Bela Lugosi.

" Chair " in English is used not only as a subject ( as in " The chair is broken "), but also as a predicate ( as in " That is a chair ").

** Mary and David Boies also endowed a " Maurice Greenberg Chair " at the Yale Law School.

Bechtel is also entitled to appoint three Governors to the Executive Committee, including the Vice Chair.

The twenty-nine, also known as the Vrdolyak Twenty-nine, was led by " the Eddies ": Alderman Ed Vrdolyak, Finance Chair Edward Burke and Parks Commissioner Edmund Kelly.

However, by 1783 Forster saw that his involvement with the Rosicrucians not only led him away from real science, but also deeper into debt ( it is said he was not good at money ); for these reason Forster was happy to accept a proposal by the Polish Komisja Edukacji Narodowej ( Commission of National Education ) and became Chair of Natural History at Vilnius University in 1784.

Once a year, the Committee submits a report to the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, which also hears a statement from the CRC Chair, and the Assembly adopts a Resolution on the Rights of the Child.

It was under development by Chair Entertainment, which also developed the Xbox Live Arcade games Undertow and Shadow Complex.

The coronation of Carinthian Dukes consisted of three parts: first, a ritual in the Slovene language was performed at the Prince's Stone ; then a mass was held at the cathedral of Maria Saal (); and subsequently, a ceremony took place at the Duke's Chair (, German: ), where the new Duke swore an oath in German and where he also received the homage of the estates.

Mulgrew is also one of six Star Trek actors to lend their voice to Star Trek: Captain's Chair, reprising her role as Captain Kathryn Janeway.

He is also one of six Star Trek actors ( the other actors being Kate Mulgrew, Michael Dorn, George Takei, Avery Brooks and Majel Barrett ) to lend their voices to the video game Star Trek: Captain's Chair reprising his role as Commander William T. Riker when users visit the Enterprise-D bridge featured in the game.

The Big Chair in Thomasville is also a major landmark.

He also serves on the Boards of Directors for TYCO International, New Plan Realty, TAG Entertainment Corporation, Ariel Mutual Fund, and as Chair of the New York State Public Higher Education Conference Board.

Four stars of this constellation ( α, β, γ, δ Lep ) form a quadrilateral and are known as ‘ Arsh al-Jawzā ', " the Throne of Jawzā '" or Kursiyy al-Jawzā ' al-Mu ' akhkhar, " the Hindmost Chair of Jawzā '" and al-Nihāl, " the Camels Quenching Their Thirst " in Arabic.

In 1296 the Stone was captured by Edward I as spoils of war and taken to Westminster Abbey, where it was fitted into a wooden chair, known as King Edward's Chair, on which most subsequent English sovereigns have been crowned.

The second Anglican ordinariate, known as the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, was established on 1 January 2012 in the United States.

Ken Roberts, best known as a soap-opera announcer ( Love of Life ; The Secret Storm ), was the narrator of some segments during season one, most notably the parody of the genre that had given him prominence, Love of Chair.

The fence was originally known as the Monument Jump but The Chair came into more regular use in the 1930s.

Finally, Davidson County is known for its oversized chair, " The Big Chair.

Gardner is known as the " Chair City " and " The Furniture Capital of New England ", due to its long history in furniture production.

An incumbent of the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics, also known as Lucasian Professor, is the title of a mathematics professorship in the University of Cambridge, England.

Though at first anonymous, its authorship soon became known, with the result that Keble was in 1831 appointed to the Chair of Poetry at Oxford, which he held until 1841.

He was also important in the history of political economy, founding what is now known as the Whately Chair of political economy at Trinity College, Dublin.

Together with his wife, Sarah, who served as Chair of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, formerly known as Handgun Control, Inc., co-founded by N. T.

The practice of the CEO also being the Chair of the Board is known as " duality ".

Mildred Rinker Bailey ( February 27, 1907 – December 12, 1951 ) was a popular and influential American jazz singer during the 1930s, known as " The Queen of Swing ", " The Rockin ' Chair Lady " and " Mrs. Swing ".

Some of her best known hits are " It's So Peaceful in the Country ", " Trust In Me ", " Where Are You ", " I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart ", " Small Fry ", " Please Be Kind ", " Darn That Dream ", " Rockin ' Chair ", " Blame It On My Last Affair ", and " Says My Heart ".

The remaining islands are Bee Holme ( the insular status of which depends on the water level ), Blake Holme, Crow Holme, Birk or Birch Holme ( called Fir Holme on Ordnance Survey maps ), Grass Holme, Lilies of the Valley ( East, and West ), Ling Holme ( a rocky hump with a few trees and a growth of ling ), Hawes Holme, Hen Holme ( also rocky and sometimes known as Chair and Table Island from some old flags or slabs of stone that were formerly found there ), Maiden Holme ( the smallest island, with just one tree ), Ramp Holme ( variously called Roger Holme and Berkshire Island at different times in its history ), Rough Holme, Snake Holme, Thompson Holme ( 2nd largest ), Silver Holme.

The head of this council is known as the First Chair.

The Disney Professorship of Archaeology, also known as the Disney Chair, is a professorship in archaeology at the University of Cambridge.

Jorge Pullin ( born 1963 in Argentina ) is the Horace Hearne Chair in theoretical Physics at the Louisiana State University, known for his work on black hole collisions and quantum gravity.

In addition to the Speaker, a Deputy Speaker, also known as the Chair of Committees of the Whole or " Chair of Committees ", is elected at the beginning of each parliament to act in place of the Speaker when the latter is unavailable.

In the late 19th century, industrial mill workers became more commonplace in the village, and the first furniture makers and workers began to settle too, with Flackwell Heath's close proximity to High Wycombe-well known for the Chair and Furniture industry.

Eau Claire alumni include Ann Devroy, the former White House correspondent at The Washington Post ; T. Keith Glennan, the first administrator of NASA ; Mark Andrew Green, a congressman and ambassador known for his work with malaria ; Stanford University climate scientist Pamela Matson, winner of the MacArthur Fellowship ; Forbes 400 billionaire and entrepreneur John Menard ; stage and film actress Laila Robins ; chemist Richard Saykally, 1932 Professor Chair at the University of California, Berkeley ; Justin Vernon, Grammy Award-winning lead singer of Bon Iver ; and poet and literary critic Elizabeth Willis, winner of the National Poetry Series and the Guggenheim Fellowship.

A cleft in the west-front of Lochlands Hill is still known as " St. Inan's Chair " and said to have been used by the saint as a pulpit.

Two sculptures, Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic ( 1987 ) and Chair Apollinaire ( 1996 ), were both works whose primary medium was cured flank steak also known as skirt steak in the UK butcher trade.