
Broom Bridge No 87
Address is taken from a point 271 yards away.

There is a bridge here which takes a track over the canal.
Penkridge Sanitary Station | 5¼ furlongs | |
Penkridge Lock No 38 | 5 furlongs | |
Penkridge Bridge No 86 | 5 furlongs | |
Penkridge - Visitor Moorings below Lock | 3¾ furlongs | |
Longford Lock No 39 | a few yards | |
Broom Bridge No 87 | ||
Woodbank Lane Bridge No 87A | ½ furlongs | |
Longford Aqueduct | ¾ furlongs | |
Longford Bridge No 88 | 2¼ furlongs | |
M6 Motorway Bridge No 88A | 3¼ furlongs | |
Teddesley Park Bridge No 89 | 5 furlongs |
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Wikipedia has a page about Broom Bridge
Broom Bridge (Irish: Droichead Broome), also called Broome Bridge, and sometimes Brougham Bridge, is a bridge along Broombridge Road which crosses the Royal Canal in Cabra, Dublin, Ireland. Broome Bridge is named after William Broome, one of the directors of the Royal Canal company who lived nearby. It is famous for being the location where Sir William Rowan Hamilton first wrote down the fundamental formula for quaternions on 16 October 1843, which is to this day commemorated by a stone plaque on the northwest corner of the underside of the bridge. After being spoiled by the action of vandals and some visitors, the plaque was moved to a different place, higher, under the railing of the bridge.
The text on the plaque reads:
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.
Given the historical importance of the bridge with respect to mathematics, mathematicians from all over the world have been known to take part in the annual commemorative walk from Dunsink Observatory to the site. Attendees have included Nobel Prize winners Murray Gell-Mann, Steven Weinberg and Frank Wilczek, and mathematicians Sir Andrew Wiles, Sir Roger Penrose and Ingrid Daubechies. The 16 October is sometimes referred to as Broomsday (in reference to Broome Bridge) and as a nod to the literary commemorations on 16 June (Bloomsday in honour of James Joyce).