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One of two dials in Trinity College in the centre of Dublin. It's a vertical bronze dial 400mm wide by 500mm high. Located in the Memorial Garden, three metres up on the gable wall of Residential Block 40. The gnomon is on the 12:30p.m. line for longitude correction, it has full hour lines and ticks for half hours. It shows 7a.m. to 7p.m in Roman numerals and " Long 6° 25' "
A bronze Equation of Time Graph plaque is fixed to the wall below the dial.


Lat 53° 21' North  Long 6° 15' West

Irish Grid     O    316470     234140


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