emmetsquare

The Square, Parsonstown (Birr, Co Offaly)

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 19 older comments, and then…
• O Mac said:

  Birr ....Cumberland Square/Duke Square

• B-59 said:

  Streetview: goo.gl/maps/8zTSsAhp3zN2

• Wendy: said:

  Great to see-( later Cumberland Square Birr ) very pertinent to my family history! Date would probably be in the later years--my bedroom window when staying with grandparents (many years later!!!) would have been the fourth from top right!!

• B-59 said:

  It's now Emmet Square "Cumberland Column, Emmet Square, Birr, County Offaly Freestanding ashlar limestone Doric column, erected in 1746, mounted on an ashlar pedestal with plinth and cornice. Located at the centre of Emmet Square. Lamp posts to each corner and protective cast-iron bollards surrounding platform. Formally supported statue of the Duke of Cumberland which was removed in the early twentieth century. Plaque inserted to pedestal reads: 'Erected by Birr Town Council to commemorate the bicentenary of the execution of Robert Emmet 1778-1803. Emmet Square was renamed in his honour in 1922. "When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then and not till then, let my epitaph be written", R. Emmet.' " www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&...

• DannyM8 said:

  O Mac Owen, I think the Post Office is on the other side of the square.