Three semicircular arches span the water, each one so thoroughly colonised by vegetation that the stonework beneath is more suggested than seen. Low pointed breakwaters, the angled projections built to split the current and protect the piers from scour, push out into the river on either side, a detail that speaks to a period when bridge-building involved careful thinking about water pressure and flood behaviour.

The bridge is recorded in the Archaeological Inventory of County Cork, which places it among the older road crossings of the mid Cork landscape. The Clyda River runs through a quiet stretch of the county, and a crossing here would have served local movement between townlands long before the road network was formalised. The semicircular arch form is one of the older techniques in Irish bridge construction, predating the slightly more economical segmental arch that became common in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, though without a precise date for this structure it is difficult to place it more exactly in that tradition. What the overgrowth does confirm, at least, is that the bridge has been left largely to itself for some time.