William Rowan Hamilton Plaque
William Rowan Hamilton Plaque is a memorial in Dublin, Leinster. William Rowan Hamilton Plaque is situated nearby to Broom Bridge, as well as near Royal Canal.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Broom Bridge and Broombridge.
Broom Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Wisher, Public domain.
Broom Bridge, also called Broome Bridge, and sometimes Brougham Bridge, is a bridge along Broombridge Road which crosses the Royal Canal in Cabra, Dublin, Ireland.
Broombridge
Railway station
Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Broombridge is a railway station beside a Luas Tram stop serving Cabra, Dublin 7, Ireland. It lies on the southern bank of the Royal Canal at the western end of what had been Liffey Junction station on the erstwhile Midland Great Western Railway.
The Presidential Residence
Government office
Photo: William Murphy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Áras an Uachtaráin, formerly the Viceregal Lodge, is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of Ireland. The estate is located off Chesterfield Avenue in the Phoenix Park in Dublin, with the building's design being credited to amateur architect Nathaniel Clements but more likely guided by professionals and completed around 1751 to 1757. The Presidential Residence is situated 2 km southwest of William Rowan Hamilton Plaque.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cabra and Finglas.
Cabra
Suburb
Photo: Darren J. Prior, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cabra is an inner suburb on the northside of Dublin city in Ireland. It is approximately 2 kilometres northwest of the city centre, in the administrative area of Dublin City Council.
Finglas
Suburb
Photo: JP, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Finglas is a northwestern outer suburb of Dublin, Ireland. It lies close to Junction 5 of the M50 motorway, and the N2 road. Nearby suburbs include Glasnevin and Ballymun; Dublin Airport is seven km to the north.
Glasnevin
Suburb
Photo: C O’Flanagan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Glasnevin is a neighbourhood of Dublin, Ireland, situated on the River Tolka. While primarily residential, Glasnevin is also home to the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin Cemetery, the National Meteorological Office, and a range of other state bodies, and Dublin City University has its main campus and other facilities in and near the area.
William Rowan Hamilton Plaque
- Type: Memorial
- Inscription: “Here as he walked by on the 16th of October 1843 Sir William Rowan Hamilton in a flash of genius discovered the fundamental formula for quaternion multiplication i² = j² = k² = ijk = −1 & cut it on a stone of this bridge.”
- Category: historic site
- Location: Dublin, Leinster, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.37301° or 53° 22′ 23″ northLongitude
-6.29996° or 6° 17′ 60″ westOpen location code
9C5M9PF2+62OpenStreetMap ID
node 448606595OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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Highlights include Royal Canal and TU Dublin Sports Broombridge.
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