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Birr Castle (Irish: Caisleán Bhiorra) [1] is a large castle in the town of Birr in County Offaly, Ireland.It is the home of the 7th Earl of Rosse and his family, and as the castle is generally not open to the public, [2] 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 ...
The O'Carroll family had a castle located at the present site of Birr Castle. Following the Plantations of Ireland, Birr was located in the Barony of Ballybritt following the formation of King's County (now County Offaly) in 1556. The town itself is an old market and former garrison town dating to the 1620s.
The latter represented King's County in the British House of Commons and sat in the House of Lords as an Irish Representative Peer between 1809 and 1841. [citation needed] The 2nd Earl's son, the 3rd Earl, was a well-known astronomer and famous for his construction of the giant telescope the Leviathan of Parsonstown at his seat Birr Castle. [5]
The Birr Castle station consists of 96 LBAs and 96 HBAs and a total of 96 digital Receiver Units (RCUs). [8] The Birr Castle station on its own is the Irish Low Frequency Array (I-LOFAR) I-Lofar telescope. [9] In 2018, I-LOFAR observed for the first time a billion-year-old red-dwarf, flare star, namely CN Leo , 7.9 light years away. [10]
He was an officer in the Irish Guards from 1955–57 and worked for the United Nations from 1963–80. He succeeded his father in 1979. He lives at Birr Castle, County Offaly. From his birth until he succeeded to the earldom in 1979, he was known as Lord Oxmantown.
The Parsons Baronetcy, of Birr Castle in the King's County, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 15 December 1677. For more information on this creation, see the Earl of Rosse (1806 creation) .
Sir William Parsons, 4th Baronet of Birr Castle (6 May 1731 – 1 May 1791) was an Irish politician and baronet. He was the son of Sir Laurence Parsons, 3rd Baronet and Mary Sprigge. From 1757 until his death in 1797, Parsons served as member of parliament (MP) in the Irish House of Commons for King's County. He was High Sheriff of King's ...
He was born at Birr Castle, Parsonstown, King's County, Ireland, the son and heir of the astronomer William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse who built the "Leviathan of Parsonstown" telescope, largest of its day, and his wife, the Countess of Rosse (née Mary Field), an amateur astronomer and pioneering photographer.