Birr Outdoor Educational Center
Birr Outdoor Educational Center is a college building in County Offaly, Leinster which is located on Seffin. Birr Outdoor Educational Center is situated nearby to the pitch Birr Skate Park, as well as near the stadium Saint Brendan’s Park.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 1 km northwest of Birr Outdoor Educational Center.
St Brendan’s Catholic Church
Church
Photo: Trenchspike, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St Brendan’s Catholic Church is situated 490 metres north of Birr Outdoor Educational Center.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Birr and Crinkill.
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.
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.
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.
Birr Outdoor Educational Center
- Type: College building
- Address: Seffin, Birr
- Categories: building and education
- Location: County Offaly, Leinster, East Coast and Midlands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.08928° or 53° 5′ 21″ northLongitude
-7.90673° or 7° 54′ 24″ westOperator
Laois and Offaly Education and Training BoardOpen location code
9C5J33QV+P8OpenStreetMap ID
way 237606619OpenStreetMap feature
building=college
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Birr Skate Park and Saint Brendan’s Park.
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