Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Clapper bridge
Drom An Ailigh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drom An Ailigh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stepping Stones (1904)
- Coordinates
- 51.84726, -9.23613
- SMR number
- CO081-008----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Crossing silted up old meander of River Lee, immediately SSW of Ballingeary. Approached from road to N by concrete steps. Bridge composed of 18 slabs (L c. 1.25m; Wth c. 0.9m; T c. 0.7m) resting on stone piers (H c. 0.4m) over a distance of 20.5m. Southern 9 slabs over channel, northern 9 slabs over silted marshy land. Footpath to S, paved at start with stone slabs, leads to second bridge (CO081-009----) to S over main channel of River Lee.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Clapper bridgeunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Mill - fullingunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.