The wide limestone span visible today dates to 1857, but the approaches on either side, buttressed in several places and built from the same coursed limestone rubble, are almost certainly remnants of something much older. The reason for the discrepancy is quietly remarkable: the bridge of 1857 replaced a twelve-arch predecessor that once crossed the Inny at a point where the river ran considerably wider than it does today.

The earlier twelve-arch bridge was already recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1837, at which point it marked the boundary between the townlands of Ballycorkey and Rathclittagh and the parish boundary between Kilbixy and Rathaspick. By 1857, the river had narrowed enough that a single wide-span arch could do what twelve once had to. The new bridge was constructed in coursed rusticated squared limestone rubble, with rock-faced limestone voussoirs, the wedge-shaped stones that lock a masonry arch together, forming a segmental rather than a full semicircular curve. The surviving abutment sections to the north and south, which predate 1857 and may be considerably older still, were simply folded into the new structure. Immediately to the south-south-west stands the site of a castle, and roughly 140 metres to the south-west there was once an eel weir, a low barrier built across a river to trap eels as they moved downstream. The clustering of a castle, a weir, and a major crossing point on the Inny suggests this stretch of river carried real strategic and economic weight long before any map recorded it.