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Birr, County Offaly Birr (; ga, Biorra, meaning "plain of water") is a town in County Offaly, Ireland. Between 1620 and 1899 it was called Parsonstown, after the Parsons family who were local landowners and hereditary Earls of Rosse. Birr is a designated Irish ...

, a town in Ireland **

Birr Castle Birr Castle ( Irish: ''Caisleán Bhiorra'') is a large castle in the town of Birr in County Offaly, Ireland. It is the home of the 7th Earl of Rosse and his family, and as such the residential areas of the castle are not open to the publi ...

, a castle in Birr, Ireland *

Birr (UK Parliament constituency) Birr, a division of King's County, was a constituency in Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament to the United Kingdom House of Commons from 1885 to 1918. Prior to the 1885 United Kingdom general election and after the dissolution of Parlia ...

, a UK parliamentary constituency in what is now County Offaly, 1885–1918 * Birr, Ontario, a community in Middlesex Centre, Ontario, Canada *

Birr, Switzerland Birr is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Aargau and the capital of Brugg (district). The village lies halfway between Lenzburg and Brugg. Birr has grown with its neighbour Lupfig into a conurbation. Birr is known as one of the places wher ...

, a municipality in Aargau, Switzerland

People

Jim Birr James Otto Birr (August 22, 1916 – June 8, 2006) was an American professional basketball player. He played for the Indianapolis Kautskys in the National Basketball League and averaged 7.0 points per game. In college, he played on the football a ...

(1916–2006), American professional basketball player * Kevin Birr (born 1969), American curler *

Todd Birr Todd Birr (born April 20, 1968) is an American curler. He was a bronze medalist at the 2007 World Men's Curling Championship. Career Birr skipped his team to victory at the 2007 United States Curling Men's Championships, beating out teams suc ...

(born 1968), American curler

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Ethiopian birr The birr ( am, ብር) is the unit of currency in Ethiopia. It is subdivided into 100 ''santim''. In 1931, Emperor Haile Selassie I formally requested that the international community use the name ''Ethiopia'' (as it had already been known int ...

, the currency of Ethiopia * Birr RFC, a rugby club in the Irish town *

Synod of Birr The Synod of Birr, held at Birr in modern County Offaly, Ireland in 697 was a meeting of churchmen and secular notables. Best remembered as the occasion on which the Cáin Adomnáin—the Law of Innocents—was guaranteed, the survival o ...

, in the Irish town, in 697 * Birr Aerodrome, near the Irish town

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