Visit in Birr Castle
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Birr Castle, in County Offaly, features a great new attraction; Ireland's new Historic Science
Centre features the many pioneering achievements of the Parsons family and of other great Irish scientists in the fields of astronomy, photography, engineering and horticulture.
In the grounds, the Great Telescope built by the third Earl of Ross in the 1840s; this was the largest in the world for 70 years. Birr Castle Demesne also host the most amazing Gardens in the country with Formal Garden and River Garden recently restored, parkland with thousands of rare trees and plants collected all over the world, rivers, lake, and waterfalls. The neogothic Castle is the private family home of the Parsons family. Read more: irishcentral.com/travel/
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