Town in County Offaly, Ireland

Birr

Birr is a heritage market town in County Offaly, Ireland.

Every way there

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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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Birr, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Birr has

YScheduled flightsShannon (SNN), 80 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 2 timetable feeds for this country, 1 with real-time
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

53.091°, -7.913°

The town is situated near the meeting of the Camcor and Little Brosna rivers, the latter flowing on into the River Shannon near Victoria Lock. Birr had a population of 4,726 at the 2022 census. The town is in a civil parish of the same name.

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