BirrWide Georgian streets laid out around the castle gates, with a lot of the original shopfronts kept.
Castle
Birr Castle Demesne
Birr, County Offaly
Fifty hectares of gardens around the castle, and the nineteenth century Leviathan telescope still standing in its walls.
Birr Castle Demesne & Historic Science Centre, home to the Parsons family since 1620, is open all year round with guided castle tours from May to August and other times by prior arrangement.
- Where
- Birr, County Offaly
- Address
- Rosse Row, Townparks
- Official site
- birrcastle.com
- Map
- Directions · OpenStreetMap
- Before you go
- Opening times, prices and access change. Check with the place itself.
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