John’s Hall

John's Hall, also known as Birr Town Hall is a municipal building in John's Mall, , Ireland. The building is currently used by the Irish Heritage School as their lecturing and exhibition venue.
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Photo: Brian Shaw, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: listed school building on John’s Mall in Birr, Co. Offaly, now in use as museum
  • Also known as: “Birr Heritage Centre”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Birr Castle and Birr Post Office.

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.

Post office
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is situated 130 metres west of John’s Hall.

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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. is situated 620 metres west of John’s Hall.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Birr and Riverstown.

Photo: Magrietha Knight, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a town in in the Midlands of Ireland, with a population of 5741 in 2016. is a well preserved Georgian town with graceful streets and elegant buildings.

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.

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.

John’s Hall

Latitude
53.09598° or 53° 5′ 46″ north
Longitude
-7.90815° or 7° 54′ 29″ west
Levels
1
Open location code
9C5J33WR+9P
Open­Street­Map ID
way 183501960
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­townhall
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­school
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Wiki­data ID
Q122171868
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