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
- 51.84550, -9.23645
- SMR number
- CO081-009----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 River Lee and connecting roadway to S with Ballingeary village to N via second clapper bridge (CO081-008----) c. 150m to N. Bridge composed of 32 slabs of various sizes affixed over a distance of 36m to piers; reconstructed prior to 1986. Partially destroyed subsequent to initial visit due to deepening of river upstream c. 1987-88. Eight slabs on S side and 6 on N side remain 'in situ'; remainder displaced.
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
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Clapper bridgeunder 1 mi
- Mill - fullingunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.