- 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...
- 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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Parsonstown, Ireland.
There he
worked as the ****istant of Lord
Rosse (the son and
successor of the Lord
Rosse who
built the
Leviathan of
Parsonstown telescope)...
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designs and the
largest telescope of the 19th century, the
Leviathan of
Parsonstown with a 6 feet (1.8 m) wide
metal mirror. In the 19th
century a new method...
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Parsonstown is a
townland in
County Westmeath, Ireland. It is
located about 7.71
kilometres (5 mi) north–north–east of Mullingar.
Parsonstown is one of...
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Killagally Parsonstown Aghadonagh 211
Ballycowan Rahan Tullamore Aghadouglas 231
Clonlisk Ettagh Roscrea Aghafin 212
Garrycastle Lemanaghan Parsonstown Aghagoogy...
