Hillbrook

Hillbrook is a locality in , . Hillbrook is situated nearby to the village , as well as near the locality .

Places of Interest

Highlights include Birr Castle and Leviathan of Parsonstown.

Castle
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is a castle in the town of 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 accessible, and include a science museum and a café, a reflecting telescope which was the largest in the world for decades and a modern radio telescope.

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The , 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.

Aerodrome
Birr Airfield is located 1 NM south of the town of in in . It was originally called Birr View Air Strip. The area for many years has been closely linked with aviation, dating from the time of the British Army air strip which was very near the present air field.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Crinkill and Riverstown.

Village
, sometimes spelt Crinkle, is a village in , , close to . 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 in . It is mostly within the townland of Ballyloughnane, on the Tipperary side of the river.

Photo: Magrietha Knight, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a town in in the Midlands of Ireland, with a population of 4700 in 2022. It’s a well-preserved Georgian town with graceful streets and elegant buildings.

Hillbrook

Latitude
53.0819° or 53° 4′ 55″ north
Longitude
-7.90187° or 7° 54′ 7″ west
Open location code
9C5J33JX+Q7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4385157000
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­locality
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