What you cross today is not quite what was built originally. The bridge once had six rectangular lintelled openings, meaning the spans were topped with flat horizontal stones rather than arches, an older and in some ways more straightforward method of spanning a gap. Of those six, only four survive on the eastern side, each roughly a metre wide and about 1.3 metres high. The two openings on the western side have been replaced at some point by a single flat arch, a repair that solved a practical problem while erasing part of the original arrangement. Low pointed breakwaters on the upstream side, designed to split the river current and reduce pressure on the structure, have also been recently attended to.

The bridge sits just east of St Olan's well, a holy well associated with the early Irish saint Olán, which gives the immediate area a layered quality: a working crossing beside a site of long-standing local devotion. The bridge itself measures 8.1 metres in width, reasonably substantial for a rural river crossing, and its recorded details appear in the Archaeological Inventory of County Cork covering the mid-Cork region. The mix of surviving original fabric on the east side and the later replacement arch on the west makes it an unusually readable example of how older bridges get modified rather than replaced outright, each intervention leaving a legible trace for anyone who looks at it carefully.