. / Built this Bridge / for £60 ... / 1811'. The sum, the date, and the partially lost name together tell a quietly specific story, the kind that tends to disappear from the record entirely once the stone surface deteriorates past a certain point. That this one survives at all, even in its damaged state, is something of an accident of durability.

The bridge itself is a modest piece of early nineteenth-century road engineering, spanning the Awbeg with two segmental arches, each roughly 2.4 metres across, built from rough limestone voussoirs. Voussoirs are the wedge-shaped stones that lock together to form an arch, transferring load outward to the supporting piers. The central pier and the arch to its west have been repaired at some point, and a cement cutwater added, a cutwater being the pointed or angled projection on a pier designed to divide the current and reduce water pressure on the structure. The bridge runs on a northeast-to-southwest axis and was subsequently widened by nearly four metres on its upstream, northwestern side, which accounts for the slightly asymmetrical look it presents today. About eighty metres to the northeast lies the site of a castle, which gives the crossing a longer historical context than its 1811 date alone would suggest; this was not simply a new bridge at a new crossing, but very likely a point in the landscape that had already carried traffic for centuries.