Telescope speculum grinding tool for Lord Rosse's 72-inch telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland Size:L: 100 x 80cm The Pied Bull is the

The Pied Bull is the site where Sir Walter Raleigh is reputed to have first smoked tobacco

Military figure wearing the uniform of the first regiment of Loyal London Volunteers

in the following Session

and this is why Parnell is depicted as a deer-stalker

Telescope speculum grinding tool for Lord Rosse's 72-inch telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland Size:L: 100 x 80cm The Pied Bull is thePlate 24 figure 3 from the paper 'On the construction of specula of six feet aperture; and a selection from the observations of nebulae made with them', by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 151 (1861) pp. 681 746. A rear view of the cast iron grinding tool used to produce the speculum (mirror) of the reflecting telescope at Birr Castle, Parsonstown, Ireland. The circular tool is shown suspended