This one, crossing the Shiven River in County Galway, went a step further. On its eastern face, somebody added a full crenellated screen wall, complete with cylindrical turrets at each end and a third turret at the riverbank, merlons with triangular coping, and brackets supporting the parapet above. It gives one side of an otherwise functional nine-arch limestone bridge the silhouette of a small castle, while the western face looks exactly as you would expect a rural Connacht bridge to look: plain coursed rubble, a flat cement coping, nothing theatrical whatsoever.

The bridge itself dates to around 1830, and its construction reflects the careful stonework typical of that period. The nine segmental arches, each framed by cut limestone voussoirs, the wedge-shaped stones that form an arch ring and distribute its load, sit on ashlar piers with triangular cutwaters, the pointed projections that divide the current and protect the piers from debris. The pyramidal limestone caps on those cutwaters add a further note of deliberate finish. The castellated eastern face, however, appears to be a later addition, built on top of an original parapet that matched the plainer western side. Who added it, and when, is not recorded, but the asymmetry is unmistakable: one face practical, the other performing a kind of architectural theatre for no obvious structural reason. A pointed-arch pedestrian gateway in the rubble limestone walls to the south-west carries the same medievalising impulse a little further into the surrounding landscape.