*Read about clapper bridges and the wider history of our ancestors hidden in the Irish landscape in my book - Remnants of Our Past by Deirdre O’Neill - see my profile.* Crossing an old footbridge in Cork. This is a clapper bridge an early footbridge built by our ancestors. They’d have led their horse or donkey through the water alongside. Some clapper bridges that still remain date back to the thirteenth century. I visited in the summer - I wonder what it’s like in the heavy rain we’ve been havi