Birr Garda Station
Birr Garda Station is a police station in County Offaly, Leinster which is located on Emmet Square. Birr Garda Station is situated nearby to Emmet Square, as well as near Dooly’s Hotel.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Birr Castle and Leviathan of Parsonstown.
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.
Leviathan of Parsonstown
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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 400 metres west of Birr Garda Station.
Marian Hall
Community center
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Marian Hall is a community center, which is situated 140 metres west of Birr Garda Station.
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
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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.
Birr Garda Station
- Type: Police station
- Address: Emmet Square, Birr
- Category: building
- Location: County Offaly, Leinster, East Coast and Midlands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.09606° or 53° 5′ 46″ northLongitude
-7.91156° or 7° 54′ 42″ westOperator
Garda SíochánaOpen location code
9C5J33WQ+C9OpenStreetMap ID
way 232079158OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=policeOpenStreetMap feature
building=yes
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