Educational Tours in Birr Castle Demesne

Discover Primary Science

€5.00 per child ~ Journey through Astronomy

With the significant changes being introduced through the new science curriculum, the emphasis is on taking science out of the textbooks and the classroom and into everyday experiences & practical activities of investigation, experiments and analysis.  Ireland’s Historic Science Centre has taken the opportunity to play a role in working with teachers and schools in celebrating our scientific heritage and fostering, inspiring and encouraging young scientists of the future. We aim to achieve this by providing a fun, interactive tour through Ireland’s Historic Science Centre and through the gardens to end at The Great Telescope.

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Junior Science Trail

€5.00 per student (self- guiding - includes illustrated work book)

The ‘Junior Science Trail’ covers areas such as light, energy conversion, living things, ecology, classification of substances, and the historic lives and scientific interests of the Parsons family, and is also suitable as a Transition Year activity.

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Horticultural Internship Programme

Over the last fifteen years, over 100 interested horticulturalists have spent a couple of months or longer in the Demesne to gain practical work experience, mostly between the spring and autumn. Some have spent the best part of a year, but most spend a trimester of two or three months.

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For bookings and further information, please contact:

Birr Castle Demesne and Ireland’s Historic Science Centre, Birr, County Offaly, Ireland
Tel: +353 5791 20336, Fax: +353 5791 21583, Email: bookings@birrcastle.com

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