Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word BIRR

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Definitions of BIRR

1. The currency of Ethiopia, divided into 100 santims.
2. (Scotland) strength, vigor, energy
3. (Scotland) The force of movement; rush, impetus, momentum, driving force
4. (Scotland) A whirring noise
5. (Scotland) A strong trilling.
6. (Scotland) To make a whirring noise; make a noise like that of revolving wheels, or of millstones at work.
7. (Scotland) To lurch or set to spinning.
8. A town in Offaly, Ireland, originally named Parsonstown.
9. A surname.
10. A community in Middlesex Centre, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada.
11. A municipality in, Aargau, Switzerland.

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Examples of Using BIRR in a Sentence

• Robinson has helped establish numerous bodies, among them the Irish Architectural Archive (with Edward McParland), the Birr Scientific and Heritage Foundation, the Irish Landmark Trust (of which he is a Trustee, ex officio President & Patron), and (with his wife Mary) the Irish Centre for European Law at Trinity College.
• Other communities: Arva, Ballymote, Birr, Bryanston, Coldstream, Delaware, Denfield, Duncrief, Elginfield, Ettrick, Ivan, Kilworth, Komoka, Littlewood, Lobo, Lobo Siding, Maple Grove, Melrose, Poplar Hill, Sharon, Southgate, Southwold, Telfer and Vanneck.
• The reforms also reduced the number of electoral areas to three: Tullamore (7 members), Birr (6 members) and Edenderry (6 members).
• Kearns privately owned bus service provides a number of direct bus services to Dublin from Birr, as well as a weekend service connecting the town with the city of Galway via Portumna, Killimor, and, Loughrea.
• His grandson Laurence Parsons was created a Baronet, of Birr Castle in King's County, in the Baronetage of Ireland in 1677, but was attainted by King James II's Parliament in 1689 and sentenced to death.
• He was born at Birr Castle, Parsonstown, King's County, Ireland, the son and heir of the astronomer William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse who built the "Leviathan of Parsonstown" telescope, largest of its day, and his wife, the Countess of Rosse (née Mary Field), an amateur astronomer and pioneering photographer.
• The new silver birr maintained the same weight and fineness as the talari, but there was now a quarter-birr and a silver ghersh, the latter 1/16 the weight of the birr.
• Statistics Canada records the following places as being part of Middlesex Centre in 2011: Arva, Ballymote, Birr, Bowood, Bryanston, Coldstream, Delaware, Denfield, Devizes, Duncrief, Ettrick, Fernhill, Ilderton, Ivan, Kilworth Heights, Komoka, Komoka Station, Lansdowne Park, Littlewood, Lobo, Lobo Siding, Lockwood Park, London, Maple Grove, Melrose, Middlesex, Middlesex Centre, Oriole Park Resort, Poplar Hill, Sharon, Southgate, Telfer, Uplands Subdivision, Vanneck.
• Dugan was the son of Charles Winston Dugan, of Oxmantown Mall, Birr, County Offaly, Ireland, an inspector of schools.
• From 1848 to 1852 he worked as an astronomy assistant to William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse at Birr Castle, County Offaly, where Parsons had built the world's largest telescope, the 72-inch Leviathan of Parsonstown.
• From here polocrosse expanded rapidly in Ireland, with several other clubs springing up, including Tipperary (based in Clonmel, County Tipperary), Carrickmines (based in South Dublin), Waterford (based in Tramore, County Waterford), Birr (Based in Birr, County Offaly), Cork (based in Middleton, County Cork) and three new recent additions: Silverspurs (based in South County Dublin), Tyrella (based in Tyrella, County Down) and Equus (based in South Dublin).
• At Meelick, the three provinces, Leinster, Munster and Connacht meet and just south of Banagher in the direction of Birr, the four dioceses of Clonmacnoise, Meath, Killaloe and Clonfert meet.
• Born in Birr, County Offaly, she is the daughter of Tom Enright, who served as a Fine Gael TD and Senator for over thirty years until his retirement in 2002.
• It is almost equidistant from Nenagh, Roscrea and Birr and is close to Ireland's largest river, the Shannon, and Lough Derg.
• The legal symposium at the Synod of Birr was prompted when Adomnáin had an Aisling dream vision wherein his mother excoriated him for not protecting the women and children of Ireland.
• Accordingly, in that month, 34 prisoners were shot in such places as Dundalk, Roscrea, Carlow, Birr and Portlaoise, Limerick, Tralee, Roscrea and Athlone.
• As a successor of Columba of Iona, Adomnán had sufficient prestige to assemble a conference of ninety-one chieftains and clerics from Ireland, Dál Riata, and Pictland at Birr to promulgate the new law.
• In 1997, Clarecastle also made the historic breakthrough in the Munster Club Hurling Championship with victory over Patrickswell, following final defeats in 1970 and ’86, and were subsequently unfortunate to lose in a replay to a great Birr team at the All-Ireland semi-final stage.
• Mohammed Al-Shiekh Daood braved Hamid with old arms, three five bullet rifles "abu khamsa" and gave him 3 Birr with sugar and tea all was provided throw Egyptian Muslims.
• The branch from Roscrea to Birr in County Offaly was closed by Coras Iompair Eireann on 1 January 1963.

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