Parks and Gardens in South and West County Offaly

Ireland's Historic Science Centre, Birr, Co. Offaly
Ireland's Historic Science Centre contains astronomical instruments, cameras, photographs and photographic equipment used by the Third and Fourth Earls and Mary, Countess of Rosse, in the middle and late 1800s.
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Co. Offaly
See the water meadows near the monastic site of Clonmacnoise where the corncrake may still be heard.
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