Photo: Colin Park · CC BY-SA 2.0At a median €200,000, homes in Birr cost 43% less than in the typical Irish town
The median home in Birr sells for €200,000. That is the middle of 264 market sales on the Property Price Register from 2023 to 2025. The typical home sells for 2.7 times as much as in 2015. Rent, income and the Cost of living Grade are on Birr’s cost of living page.
99% of the homes sold in Birr were second-hand
264 market sales in three years: 4 new homes and 260 second-hand.
median sale · 260 sold in 3 years
- 2025 median
- €230K 81 sold
- 2022 to 2025
- +43%
- the typical Irish town
- €326K
New homes: 4 sold
Fewer than 30 sales: too few for a median.
median sale · 264 sold in 3 years
- Middle half
- €136K–€282K
- Last 12 months
- €265K 82 sold
- the typical Irish town
- €350K
2% of the sales were new homes
Market sales on the Property Price Register, 2023–25. The register says whether a home was new or second-hand, not its type or size. New homes are filed without VAT; we add back 13.5%. A median needs 30 sales.
Half of Birr’s homes sold for between €136K and €282K
One sale in ten was under €85K and one in ten over €369K. 64% sold for under €250K and 4% for €500K or more.
The median, €200,000, sits in the €200–250K band
264 market sales, 2023–25, VAT included. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
The typical home costs 2.7 times as much as in 2015, a faster rise than the typical Irish town’s
From €152,500 in 2010 to €227,500 in 2025, each the median of that year’s market sales.
About as many homes sell as usual
82 homes sold in 2025. The busiest year was 2022, with 116, and the quietest 2011, with 28.
Birr costs less than the typical Irish town
Each year’s median sale: the town, the middle of County Offaly’s towns of 2,500 or more, and the typical Irish town.
New homes and second-hand, year by year
| 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All homes | €153K | €85K | €125K | €228K |
| Typical Irish town | €220K | €170K | €261K | €388K |
| Second-hand homes | — | €90K | €125K | €230K |
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 30 sales of the kind, so a dash is a year with fewer.
Property Price Register: every market sale placed in the town since 2010, VAT included; a year’s median needs 30 sales. Sales whose address names no town aren’t counted.
Hardly any new homes: 2% of the homes sold in Birr in three years
4 new homes and 260 second-hand ones sold from 2023 to 2025, by the register’s own split.
1% of the homes sold in 2025 were new
Calendar years with 10 or more sales. The share peaked at 26% in 2010.
Only 4 new homes sold in three years
Against 260 second-hand: too few new sales for a median of their own in Birr.
Filed without VAT
Most new homes are filed on the register without VAT. Every figure here adds back 13.5%, so new and second-hand compare like for like.
Property Price Register, 2023–25: 4 new and 260 second-hand market sales. New homes are filed without VAT; we add back 13.5%.
Crinkle is Birr’s busiest street or estate, with 11 sales in three years
10 streets and estates had 5 or more sales from 2023 to 2025, 1 of them ten or more.
| # | Street or estate | Sales | Median | Homes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crinkle | 11 | €200,000 | Second-hand |
| 2 | Hillside | 8 | €315,000 | Mixed |
| 3 | Brosna | 6 | €345,000 | Second-hand |
| 4 | Emmet Street | 6 | €217,500 | Second-hand |
| 5 | Kinnity | 6 | €140,000 | Second-hand |
| 6 | Newbridge Street | 6 | €172,500 | Second-hand |
| 7 | Cappaneale | 5 | €167,000 | Second-hand |
| 8 | Johns Terrace | 5 | €280,000 | Second-hand |
| 9 | Market Square | 5 | €90,500 | Second-hand |
| 10 | Seffin | 5 | €245,000 | Second-hand |
Streets and estates with 5 or more market sales from 2023 to 2025, named as the register’s addresses name them; medians only.
Birr is the 5th most expensive of 8 towns in County Offaly
Birr is in the middle of County Offaly’s towns to buy in; the typical Irish town’s median is €350,000.
Towns of 1,000 or more in County Offaly, by their median home of 2023–25; * marks a routing-key median (fewer than 30 sales in the town). Each links to its own Housing page.
Cheaper nearby: Banagher, Kilcormac and Borrisokane.
The towns around Birr: their median home (2023–25), market sales on the Property Price Register in those three years, the change in ten years and the distance.
| Town | Median sale | Sales, 3 years | Since 2015 | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birr | €200K | 264 | +168% | |
| Banagher | €165K | 75 | – | 11.7 |
| Kilcormac | €160K | 39 | – | 15.1 |
| Roscrea | €197K | 260 | +201% | 17.2 |
| Borrisokane | €189K | 46 | – | 18.4 |
A routing-key price (fewer than 30 sales in the town) counts for its whole postal area. Rents are each town’s own RTB figure where published, else its district’s, city’s or county’s.
Questions about property prices in Birr
What is the average house price in Birr?
The median home in Birr sold for €200,000 from 2023 to 2025, across 264 market sales on the Property Price Register (€265,000 in the last 12 months).
Are house prices going up in Birr?
The median sale was €200,000 in 2024 and €227,500 in 2025: it went up 14%.
How many homes sell in Birr each year?
82 sales in Birr were filed on the Property Price Register in 2025, against an average of 89 a year over the last ten. Sales whose address names no town aren’t counted, so the true figure is somewhat higher.
Is Birr expensive for County Offaly?
Birr is the 3rd most expensive of 4 towns of 2,500 or more in County Offaly by median sale price.
Can I see individual sales or prices by street?
Yes: the Property Price Register publishes every residential sale with its address and price at propertypriceregister.ie. This page shows the town’s medians and counts.
Sales: Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority. House prices by Eircode routing key, RTB rents and household incomes: CSO, CC BY 4.0. Routing-key areas: Autoaddress.
Sources: Property Price Register (PSRA), 2010–2026 · CSO HPA04 house prices by Eircode routing key, 2023–25. Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).