Birr, Ireland Town
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Birr is one of Ireland's finest examples of a Georgian Town. It is a virtually intact 18th/19th
century town, formal, spacious and well planned, with Georgian houses along its tree-lined malls and
avenues.
Birr Castle has been the seat of the Parsons family, Earls of Rosse, for fourteen consecutive
generations. Georgian architecture is complemented by monuments to earlier Earls, including one to
a great astronomer, who built what, at the time, was the worlds largest telescope in the grounds
of Birr Castle.
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