No water is visible, no arch survives, and the entry in the historical record amounts to little more than a map reference and a planning note. Yet the Dublin City Development Plan of 1991 saw fit to formally record the 'site of Bridge' on Ardee Street, a gesture that preserves, just barely, the memory of a crossing that would have been entirely unremarkable to those who used it daily.

The bridge spanned a millrace, a channel cut specifically to carry fast-moving water to drive industrial machinery. In this case, the millrace fed a malt mill on Ardee Street, part of the brewing and malting infrastructure that once made this part of Dublin hum with industry. The Liberties and its surrounding streets had a long association with textile work, milling, and later brewing, and the presence of a dedicated water channel here fits that wider pattern. The site appears on a Fringe Map Dublin survey from 1978, which is how the detail found its way into the planning record, and the Development Plan entry assigns it reference number 3, 277, cross-referenced against the city's catalogue of historical features.

There is no structure to visit. What remains is, in the strictest sense, an absence, a place where something functional and forgotten once existed. Ardee Street runs between the Coombe and Cork Street in the south inner city, and it is perfectly walkable from the city centre. Anyone curious enough to look will find an ordinary urban street, largely rebuilt over the decades. The value here is less in what can be seen and more in what the record implies: that the ground beneath a working Dublin street was once shaped by the demands of a malt mill, with water coursing underneath or alongside where cars now park.