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Birr

Birr is a town in in the Midlands of Ireland, with a population of 5741 in 2016. Birr is a well preserved Georgian town with graceful streets and elegant buildings.
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  • Type: Town with 3,300 residents
  • Description: town in County Offaly, Ireland
  • Also known as: “Birr, County Offaly” and “Parsonstown”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Birr Castle and Leviathan of Parsonstown.

Castle
Photo: Tpower, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a large castle in the town of Birr in , . It is the home of the 7th Earl of Rosse and his family, and as such the castle is generally not open to the public, though the grounds and gardens of the demesne are publicly…

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, or Rosse six-foot telescope, is a historic reflecting telescope of 72 inches aperture, which was the largest telescope in the world from 1845 until the construction of the 100-inch Hooker Telescope in California in 1917.

Museum
Photo: Brian Shaw, CC BY-SA 2.0.
John's Hall, also known as Birr Town Hall is a municipal building in John's Mall, Birr, County Offaly, Ireland. The building is currently used by the Irish Heritage School as their lecturing and exhibition venue.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Crinkill and Riverstown.

Village
, sometimes spelt Crinkle, is a village in , , close to Birr. was designated as a census town by the Central Statistics Office for the first time in the 2016 census, at which time it had a population of 682 people.

Village
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is a small village straddling the border between Counties and on the outskirts of Birr in . It is mostly within the townland of Ballyloughnane, on the Tipperary side of the river.

Birr

Latitude
53.0961° or 53° 5′ 46″ north
Longitude
-7.9109° or 7° 54′ 39″ west
Population
3,300
Elevation
52 metres (171 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IE BIR
Open location code
9C5J33WQ+CJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 52245580
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2966154
Wiki­data ID
Q865849
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Azerbaijani to Welsh—“Birr” goes by many names.
  • Azerbaijani: “Birr”
  • Basque: “Birr”
  • Belarusian: “Бір”
  • Bulgarian: “Бир”
  • Catalan: “Birr”
  • Cebuano: “Birr”
  • Chinese: “伯爾”
  • Danish: “Birr (Irland)”
  • Danish: “Birr”
  • Dutch: “Birr”
  • Finnish: “Birr (kaupunki)”
  • Finnish: “Birr”
  • French: “Birr”
  • French: “Parsonstown”
  • Georgian: “ბირი”
  • German: “Birr”
  • Indonesian: “Biorra”
  • Indonesian: “Birr, republik irlandia”
  • Indonesian: “Birr, Republik Irlandia”
  • Irish: “Biorra”
  • Italian: “Birr”
  • Japanese: “バー”
  • Japanese: “バール”
  • Japanese: “ベール”
  • Lithuanian: “Biras”
  • Macedonian: “Бир”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Birr (Irland)”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Birr i County Offaly”
  • Norwegian: “Birr”
  • Polish: “Birr (Irlandia)”
  • Polish: “Birr”
  • Russian: “Берр (Оффали)”
  • Russian: “Бирр (река)”
  • Russian: “Бирр”
  • Serbian: “Бер (Ирска)”
  • Serbian: “Бер”
  • Spanish: “Birr”
  • Swedish: “Biorra”
  • Swedish: “Birr, Irland”
  • Urdu: “بئر، کاؤنٹی اوفلی”
  • Urdu: “بئر”
  • Welsh: “Birr”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Birr”. Photo: Magrietha Knight, CC BY-SA 4.0.