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, Ireland. It is approximately 2 kilometres northwest of the city centre, in the administrative area of Dublin City Council.

Finglas

Suburb

Photo: Darren J. Prior, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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.

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
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Latitude

53.37301° or 53° 22′ 23″ north

Longitude

-6.29996° or 6° 17′ 60″ west

Open location code

9C5M9PF2+62

OpenStreetMap ID

node 448606595

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=memorial

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Royal Canal and TU Dublin Sports Broombridge.

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