Shannon Region
Munster
County Tipperary

Leviathan of Parsonstown

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.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: telescope
  • Also known as: “Great Rosse” and “The Great Telescope ‘Leviathan’”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Birr Castle and Marian Hall.

Castle
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is a large 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…

Community center
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is a community center, which is situated 260 metres east of Leviathan of Parsonstown.

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, , Ireland. The building is currently used by the Irish Heritage School as their lecturing and exhibition venue. is situated 620 metres east of Leviathan of Parsonstown.

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.

Leviathan of Parsonstown

Latitude
53.09682° or 53° 5′ 49″ north
Longitude
-7.91739° or 7° 55′ 3″ west
Open location code
9C5J33WM+P2
Open­Street­Map ID
way 42828652
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­telescope
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Wiki­data ID
Q459970
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In Other Languages

From Belarusian to Ukrainian—“Leviathan of Parsonstown” goes by many names.
  • Belarusian: “Тэлескоп Роса”
  • Chinese: “利維坦望遠鏡”
  • Chinese: “帕森城的利維坦”
  • Chinese: “帕森城的利维坦”
  • Chinese: “帕森斯敦的利維坦”
  • Dutch: “Leviathan van Parsonstown”
  • Esperanto: “Levjatano de Parsonstown”
  • French: “Leviathan de Parsonstown”
  • French: “Léviathan de Parsonstown”
  • German: “Leviathan”
  • Italian: “Leviatano di Parsonstow”
  • Italian: “Leviatano di Parsonstown”
  • Japanese: “パーソンズタウンのリヴァイアサン”
  • Luxembourgish: “Leviathan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Leviathan of Parsonstown-teleskopet”
  • Polish: “Sześciostopowy teleskop Rosse’a”
  • Polish: “Teleskop Rosse’a”
  • Russian: “Левиафан”
  • Spanish: “Leviatan de Parsonstown”
  • Spanish: “Leviatán de Parsonstown”
  • Swedish: “Parsonstowns leviatan”
  • Ukrainian: “Левіафан”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Historic Science Centre and St Brendan’s Well.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Leviathan of Parsonstown”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.