What makes it worth a second look is the precision of its construction relative to its modest rural setting: three wide segmental arches, each formed with dressed limestone voussoirs (the wedge-shaped stones that lock an arch into place), sitting on low rounded cutwaters that deflect the river's flow around the piers. The parapet carries a D-shaped limestone coping, and the abutments at either end are piered rather than plain, giving the whole structure a considered, workmanlike quality.

The 1842 Ordnance Survey six-inch map catches the bridge at an interesting moment: the structure itself is already indicated, but the approaching road is shown still under construction. That detail places the bridge in the broader wave of road improvement that transformed rural Ireland in the decades following the establishment of county road boards, and before the Famine interrupted so many such projects. The main fabric is random-rubble limestone, the common building material of the region, shaped and laid without the precision coursing you would find in more formal civic architecture, but durable enough that the bridge has survived into the present with at least one round of recent repair.