Article on St. Brendan of Ardfert and Clonfert, also known as Brendan the Voyager. Monastic founder, d. 577. About half of the article is devoted to St. Brendan's famous voyage. www.newadvent.org/cathen/02758c.htm
Brief look at the history of St. Brendan the Navigator and his connections to this rural place in south County Galway, as founder of the 6th-century monastic settlement there. www.moytura.com/clonfert2.htm
Biographical information on the Irish saint, and also the history of searches for St Brendan's isle. In the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. Has some scanner errors. 3.1911encyclopedia.org/B/BR/BRENDAN.htm