Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Connaught. You may be able to find further references to Connaught in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Connaught the smallest, least populous, and most westerly of the four provinces of Ireland Bartholomew

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Connaught within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller Section No. of Refs.
Arthur Young 21st to 31st August 1776: Roscommon, Sligo and Mayo 7
John Wesley 1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost 1
John Wesley 1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg 1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer