John Grantham Memorial - Killaloe, County Clare, Ireland
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BruceS
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Memorial tablet honoring a Civil Engineer located in the St Flannan's Cathedral - Killaloe, County Clare, Ireland.
Waymark Code: WMAH9B
Location: Munster, Ireland
Date Posted: 01/16/2011
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Text of tablet:
Sacred to the memory of
who died in Limerick
on the 23rd of February 1833
aged 58 years.
This Monument was erected
by a few of his friends
in testimony of their esteem
for his private worth
and as a memorial of his
having made the first survey
of the River Shannon
with a view of improving it
and for his having been
the first who intorduced
Steam Navigation
on its waters in the year 1825.