Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Canal
Clonfert (BUTSON),Clonfert Demesne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonfert (BUTSON),Clonfert Demesne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24529, -8.05615
- SMR number
- GA101-030----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In flat marshy pastureland, c. 300m NE of St. Brendan’s Cathedral (GA101-017001-). Known locally as ‘St.
Brendan’s Canal’. A shallow water-logged depression (Wth 2.5m) runs NE-SW for c. 400m. According to local tradition, the ‘canal’ connects the Bishop’s Palace (GA101-008----) and Costello’s Island on the River Shannon, a distance of c. 2.4km (pers. comm. C. Cunniffe).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 23 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.