My mother was born in Birr in April 1916. To visit would be a huge highlight in my life. She was very proud of her home town but was sent to the Magdalenes after becoming pregnant and her mother wouldn't allow her home after my sister was born in 1935..I know nothing of my Irish family but please God will visit next year. Slainte from Edinburgh.🙋
Birr (/ˈbɜːr/; Irish: Biorra, meaning "plain of water") is a town in County Offaly, Ireland. Between 1620 and 1899 it was called Parsonstown, after the Parsons family who were local landowners and hereditary Earls of Rosse.[7] The town lies within a parish of the same name in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe. Birr is a designated Irish Heritage Town with a carefully preserved Georgian heritage. Birr itself has graceful wide streets and elegant buildings. Many of the houses in John's Place and Oxmantown Mall have exquisite fanlight windows of the Georgian period. The town is known for Birr Castle and its gardens, home of the Parsons family and also the Leviathan of Parsonstown which was the largest telescope in the world for over 70 years.
My mother was born in Birr in April 1916. To visit would be a huge highlight in my life. She was very proud of her home town but was sent to the Magdalenes after becoming pregnant and her mother wouldn't allow her home after my sister was born in 1935..I know nothing of my Irish family but please God will visit next year. Slainte from Edinburgh.🙋
Birr (/ˈbɜːr/; Irish: Biorra, meaning "plain of water") is a town in County Offaly, Ireland. Between 1620 and 1899 it was called Parsonstown, after the Parsons family who were local landowners and hereditary Earls of Rosse.[7] The town lies within a parish of the same name in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe.
Birr is a designated Irish Heritage Town with a carefully preserved Georgian heritage. Birr itself has graceful wide streets and elegant buildings. Many of the houses in John's Place and Oxmantown Mall have exquisite fanlight windows of the Georgian period.
The town is known for Birr Castle and its gardens, home of the Parsons family and also the Leviathan of Parsonstown which was the largest telescope in the world for over 70 years.