St Brendan’s Catholic Church
St Brendan’s Catholic Church is a church in County Offaly, Leinster. St Brendan’s Catholic Church is situated nearby to Convent of Mercy Cemetery, as well as near Birr Library.Photo: Trenchspike, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Church
- Denomination: Roman Catholic
- Description: church in Birr, County Offaly, Ireland
- Also known as: “Saint Brendan’s Church”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Birr Castle and John’s Hall.
Birr Castle
Castle
Photo: Tpower, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Birr Castle is a castle in the town of Birr in County Offaly, Ireland. 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.
John’s Hall
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. John’s Hall is situated 270 metres north of St Brendan’s Catholic Church.
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. Leviathan of Parsonstown is situated 690 metres northwest of St Brendan’s Catholic Church.
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.
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.
St Brendan’s Catholic Church
- Categories: Catholic church building, building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: County Offaly, Leinster, East Coast and Midlands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.09353° or 53° 5′ 37″ northLongitude
-7.90866° or 7° 54′ 31″ westOpen location code
9C5J33VR+CGOpenStreetMap ID
way 183820929OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=churchOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=roman_catholicWikidata ID
Q55029356
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