Editing River Fowey (section)

==History==
[[Image:king-donierts-stone.jpg|thumb|[[King Doniert's Stone]] (2007)]]

[[Donyarth]] ({{langx|la|Doniert}}), or Dungarth (died 875), was the last-recorded king of [[History of Cornwall|Cornwall]]. He is thought to be the 'Doniert' recorded on an inscription on [[King Doniert's Stone]], a ninth-century cross shaft which stands in [[St Cleer]] [[civil parish|parish]] in Cornwall, although he is not given any title in the inscription.<ref>{{cite book |author-link=Charles Thomas (historian) |first=Charles |last=Thomas |year=1986 |title=Celtic Britain |series=Ancient Peoples & Places Series |location=London |publisher=Thames & Hudson }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Mark |last=Stoyle |author-link = Mark Stoyle|year=2002 |title=West Britons: Cornish Identities and the Early Modern British State |publisher=University of Exeter Press |isbn=0-85989-687-0 }}</ref><ref name=P56>{{cite book |last=Payton |first=Philip |author-link=Philip Payton |title=Cornwall: A History |edition=2nd |year=2004 |page=56 |publisher=Cornwall Editions Ltd |location=Fowey |isbn=1-904880-00-2 }}</ref>
According to the ''{{lang|la|[[Annales Cambriae]]}}'', he drowned in 875. His death may have been an accident, but it was recorded in Ireland as a punishment for collaboration with the [[Vikings]], who were harrying the West Saxons and briefly occupied [[Exeter]] in 876 before being driven out by [[Alfred the Great]]. [[Philip Payton]] states that one must imagine that he drowned in the River Fowey, near King Doniert's Stone.<ref name="P56"/>

The Polbrock Canal, approved by Parliament in the 1790s but never built, would have provided a link between the north and south coasts of Cornwall by joining the [[River Camel]] with the Fowey at Bodmin.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://canalrivertrustwaterfront.org.uk/heritage/feature-pos3-imagined-canals/|title=Imagined canals|date=5 July 2018}}</ref>