Birr

Worth seeing in and around Birr

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Birr Castle

   Birr Castle is a castle in the town of Birr in County Offaly, Ireland. It is the home of Brendan Parsons, 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.

   500 m · 17th century castle with demesne and historic telescope · Wikipedia
2. 02
   John's Hall

   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.

   600 m · listed school building on John's Mall in Birr, Co. Offaly, now in use as museum · Wikipedia

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Getting to Birr

Airports

Shannon (SNN), 80 km · Ireland West Knock (NOC), 109 km · Dublin (DUB), 116 km

Stations

Birr Aerodrome, 2.5 km

• Shannon → Birr

  Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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• Charlestown → Birr

  5886 km · quickest by air, 16h 7m · $970–1,500
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• Dublin → Birr

  114 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · €14–20
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