Cookoo Island
Cookoo Island is a locality in County Offaly, Leinster. Cookoo Island is situated nearby to the locality Forge Hill, as well as near Cappaneale.Places of Interest
Highlights include Leviathan of Parsonstown and St Brendan’s Community School.
Leviathan of Parsonstown
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Leviathan of Parsonstown, 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.
St Brendan’s Community School
School
St Brendan's Community School is a mixed-gender secondary school in the town of Birr, County Offaly in Ireland. As of 2024, the school had an enrollment of 822.
Oxmantown School
School building
Photo: A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0.
Oxmantown School is a school building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Birr and Riverstown.
Birr
Photo: Magrietha Knight, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Birr is a town in County Offaly 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.
Riverstown
Village
Photo: sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Riverstown is a small village straddling the border between Counties Tipperary and Offaly on the outskirts of Birr in Ireland. It is mostly within the townland of Ballyloughnane, on the Tipperary side of the river. Riverstown is situated 3 km south of Cookoo Island.
Crinkill
Village
Crinkill, sometimes spelt Crinkle, is a village in County Offaly, Ireland, close to Birr. Crinkill 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. Crinkill is situated 4½ km southeast of Cookoo Island.
Cookoo Island
- Type: Locality
- Location: County Offaly, Leinster, East Coast and Midlands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.11104° or 53° 6′ 40″ northLongitude
-7.93502° or 7° 56′ 6″ westOpen location code
9C5J4367+CXOpenStreetMap ID
node 4382713561OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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Localities in the Area
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