- town in
County Offaly, Ireland.
Between 1620 and 1899 it was
called Parsonstown,
after the
Parsons family who were
local landowners and
hereditary Earls...
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Leviathan of
Parsonstown, or
Rosse six-foot telescope, is a
historic reflecting telescope of 72
inches (1.83 m) aperture,
which was the
largest telescope...
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Parsonstown is the
former name of the town of Birr,
County Offaly in Ireland.
Parsonstown may also
refer to: Two
townlands in
County Kildare: Parsonstown...
- Mary Ward
became one of the
first do****ented car
fatalities in 1869 in
Parsonstown, Ireland, and
Henry Bliss one of the US's
first pedestrian car casualties...
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cousin William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse.
Parsons built the
Leviathan of
Parsonstown, a
reflecting telescope with a six-foot
mirror which remained the world's...
- telescope,
built in 1845 and
colloquially known as the "Leviathan of
Parsonstown", was the world's
largest telescope, in
terms of
aperture size, until...
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Parsons had
built the world's
largest telescope, the 72-inch
Leviathan of
Parsonstown.
Simultaneously Stoney continued to
study physics and
mathematics and...
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Counties Championships Ireland was an
early men's
tennis tournament held in
Parsonstown, King’s County,
Ireland from 1883
through 1896. The King’s
County and...
- Birr Castle,
County Offaly, Ireland, and the town of Birr was
called Parsonstown,
after the family, from 1620 to 1901. With his
three brothers, Parsons...
- the
mounted militia Troop in King's County. The
county also had the
Parsonstown Loyal Independent Volunteer Corps raised at Birr in 1776. The Volunteers...
