Image of Gaeilge & English street signs in Clonbur, Republic of Ireland. Clonbur is a town located in a Gaeltacht area in County Galway. Clonbur in Irish is An Fhairche. It is situated between Lough Mask and Lough Corrib- world renowned fishing lakes, and draws fishermen the world over. It is near Ross Hill Abbey and Teampall Brendan where, it is said, St. Brendan planned his sea voyage to the New World, 900 years before Columbus!
Clonbur is also the location of the ruins of the St. Petersburgh Estate, the ancestral home of John Lynch signer of the American Declaration of Independence.