A lecture by Dr. John Feehan
Birr Library, Wednesday 7th October at 7:00pm
For most of us the story of Birr begins with the first chapters of Cooke's History (The early history of the town of Birr or Parsonstown by Thomas Lalor Cooke)
But the story really began thousands of years before this. The character of the place that became Birr was profoundly influenced by the legacy of the last Ice Age, which touches our lives in unexpected ways even today. The lecture will tell the story of the eskers and moaines that blanket the landscape of our part of the midlands, and trace the evolution of the bogs that are so intimate a part of the character of Birr and its hinterland, and take a reep at what the landscape of the future might be like.