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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 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] Lord Rosse also sat as Member of Parliament for King's County, was an Irish Representative Peer from 1845 to 1867 – years during which millions of the Irish population ...
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]
Birr Castle, County Offaly, seat of the Earls of Rosse. Lord Rosse was the eldest son of Laurence Michael Harvey Parsons, 6th Earl of Rosse, and Anne (née Messel, mother of Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon by an earlier marriage).
Birr Castle Sculpture Park at Lough Boora. Birr in the south of the county is best known for its castle and gardens. Birr Castle is owned by the Parsons family, (the family bears the title: 'Earl of Rosse') and is best known for its 19th-century telescope, the Leviathan of Parsonstown. Sculpture in the Parklands around Lough Boora in Boora Bog.
Parsons was born into an Anglo-Irish family on 13 June 1854 [3] [4] [5] in London as the youngest son of the famous astronomer William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse.The family seat is Birr Castle, County Offaly, Ireland, and the town of Birr was called Parsonstown, after the family, from 1620 to 1901.
During the Great Famine of 1845–47 in Ireland she was responsible for keeping over five hundred men employed in work in and around Birr Castle, where she and her husband lived. [ 3 ] She created a huge dining room at Birr Castle in which to entertain scientific guests, which became increasingly used when Lord Rosse became President of the ...