Birr

Location type

Station


Names and dates

Parsontown (1858-1902)
Birr (1902-1963)

Opened on the Roscrea and Parsontown Junction Railway.



Dates

  /  /1858Roscrea and Parsontown Junction Railway
Extended from Roscrea to Parsontown.
  /  /1868Parsontown and Portumna Bridge Railway
Opened from Parsontown to Portumna, with the branch continuing a little further west to a pier on Lough Derg. Worked by the Great Southern and Western Railway.
  /  /1900Roscrea and Parsontown Junction Railway
Parsontown renamed Birr.

Books


A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: The North-east v. 4 (A regional history of the railways of Great Britain)
North Sunderland Railway (Locomotion Papers)
The North Sunderland Railway (Locomotion Papers; no. 36)