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An inland Irish county on the left bank of the Shannon, between Tipperary and West Meath; is mostly flat, a quarter of it bogland and a quarter under crops; the chief towns are Tullamore, the county town, on the Grand Canal, and Birr or Parsonstown, where Lord Rosse's great telescope is.