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- GOING UNDERGROUND TO ENTER A TOMB IN A GRAVEYARD, IN COUNTY CORK. IRELAND WITH BALLINEEN ENNISKEAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HERITAGE GROUP.
- ECCLESIASTICAL MONUMENT AT KINNEIGH, SLEENOGE, COUNTY CORK, IRELAND. A CHURCH, GRAVEYARD AND ROUND TOWER.
- KNIGHTS HOSPITALLER’S MOURNE ABBEY
- ATHANOWEN/CARRIGANE, OVENS, COUNTY CORK, IRELAND: community care FROM EMC OVENS
- CONSERVATION GUIDELINES IN HISTORIC MONUMENTS IN COUNTY CORK, IRELAND. THE MEDIEVAL CHURCHES AND GRAVEYARDS OF KILBOHANE NEAR AHERLA AND KILNAGLORY NEAR BALLINCOLLIG.
- THE ROYAL GUNPOWDER MILLS, BALLINCOLLIG, COUNTY CORK, IRELAND
- BOOK BY CATRYN POWER CALLED ‘CATRYN POWER-SHORT STORIES’ IS SHORT-LISTED TO THE FINAL 12 FICTION BOOKS FOR UK PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE MAY 23rd 2017 IN LONDON.
Dr. T. Robertson
August 11, 2015
Excellent photographs of impressive bridges. It is hard to make estimates for such bridges but do you know how old they might be?
sootash1
August 11, 2015
YES, IT IS DIFFICULT TO PUT A DATE ON THESE CLAPPER
BRIDGES. IN cORK AND ELSEWHERE (INCLUDING ENGLAND) I DO NOT BELIEVE THE DATE OF CONTRUCTION IS KNOWN FOR ANY ONE OF THESE BRIDGES. THEY ALSO HAVE BEEN REPAIRED OVER THE CENTURIES.
THE WORD CLAPPER IS FROM THE LATIN CLAPERIUM, A PILE OF STONES. cLEACA IS AN ANGLO-SAXON WORD FOR ‘BRIDGING THE STEPPING STONES’. THESE WORDS TELL US THAT THESE BRIDGES WERE MOST PROBABLY PRESENT AT THOSE PARTICULAR TIMES WHEN THESE LANGUAGES WERE USED.
THE ONLY CLAPPER BRIDGE IN COUNTY CORK, WHICH HAS A DATE ASSOCIATED WITH IT, IS ONE AT wATERHOUSE, NEAR bALLYBEG, OUTSIDE bUTTEVANT IN nORTH cORK. IT WAS USED BY THE MEDIEVAL MONKS AT BALLYBEG PRIORY. BUT THE DATE COULD BE EARLIER.
IT was ORIGINALLY THOUGHT THAT THEY ARE PREHISTORIC, BUT THIS IS NOT CERTAIN BUT THEY WELL BE FROM A VARIETY OF PERIODS.