Blueprint filed to restore Boole home

Plans have been lodged with Cork City Council to restore the home of maths pioneer and the forefather of the information age, George Boole.

University College Cork and the George Boole 200 programme have filed for planning permission from the local authority to restore No 5 Grenville Place, Boole’s former lodging.

Boole lived at Grenville Place from 1849 until 1855, where he had the freedom to fully develop his ideas on pure mathematics.