Oxmantown School
Oxmantown School is a school building in County Offaly, Leinster. Oxmantown School is situated nearby to Millenium Gardens, as well as near the garden Birr Community Growery.Photo: A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: School building
- Description: listed school building in Birr, Co. Offaly
- Also known as: “Model School” and “Parsonstown Model National School”
- Roof shape: gabled
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Leviathan of Parsonstown and Birr Castle.
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 450 metres southwest of Oxmantown School.
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.
St Brendan’s Church
Church
Photo: Trenchspike, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St Brendan’s Church is situated 370 metres southeast of Oxmantown School.
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. Crinkill is situated 2½ km southeast of Oxmantown School.
Oxmantown School
- Categories: building and education
- Location: County Offaly, Leinster, East Coast and Midlands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.10038° or 53° 6′ 1″ northLongitude
-7.91426° or 7° 54′ 51″ westOpen location code
9C5J432P+57OpenStreetMap ID
way 241392341OpenStreetMap feature
building=schoolOpenStreetMap attribute
roof-shape=gabledWikidata ID
Q122171956
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