Birr

Birr is a city in County Offal, Ireland. Between 1620 and 1899 it become known as Parsons metropolis, after the Parsons own family who were nearby landowners and hereditary Earls of Rosse. The town lies within a parish of the equal name inside the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe. Birr is a chosen Irish Heritage Town with a cautiously preserved Georgian history. Birr itself has graceful wide streets and elegant homes. Many of the houses in John's Place and Oxmantown Mall have wonderful fanlight windows of the Georgian period. The metropolis is known for Birr Castle and its gardens, home of the Parsons own family and also the Leviathan of Parsons town which changed into the most important telescope inside the international for over 70 years.

A monastery became based right here by means of St Brendan of Birr. It produced the MacRegol Gospels, named after the abbot on the turn of the eighth/ninth century and now to be visible within the Bodleian Library in Oxford. The Synod of Birr, held in 697, become the occasion on which the Cain Adomnain, or regulation of innocents, changed into said. In Gaelic Ireland, Birr was located within the O'Carroll territory of Eile. This petty kingdom fashioned a place that now paperwork the south of County Offal and the north-east of County Tipperary.