What is recorded here
Skreen, County Sligo, Ireland, is the birthplace of Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, born 13 August 1819. He spent fifty-four years at Cambridge, shaped fluid dynamics and optics, and presided over the Royal Society from 1885 to 1890. A small Irish town gave Victorian science one of its greatest architects.
Why this person is known: Irish mathematician and physicist (1819–1903)
- Birthplace
- Skreen
Places near here
Saint Adamnan's Wellmonument · 297 yd
IndicatedChurch · 320 yd
Enclosure in MasreaghEnclosure · 358 yd
Enclosure in Skreen MoreEnclosure · 406 yd
CastleCastle, Anglo-Norman masonry castle · 1.3 mi
Dunmoran StrandBeach / strand · 1.5 mi
Aughris BeachBeach / strand · 1.9 mi
Aughris HeadHeadland · 2.9 mi
Bawn in CarrowbrickeenBawn · 2.9 mi
Valley WoodForest · 3.1 mi
Knockalongy North-East TopMountain / peak · 3.1 mi
Giant's GraveArchaeological place · 3.3 miOther information
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