Set into the upstream face, above the central cutwater, a stone slab reads simply: "Erected by / Sir Edwd. Tierney, Bart. / A.D. 1848." The coat of arms of Sir Edward Tierney appears again on embossed shields at the centre of the cast iron railings that run along each parapet. For a two-metre-wide footbridge, it wears its ownership rather conspicuously.

The bridge has four low, four-centred arches, a form in which the curve of each arch is drawn from four separate points rather than a single centre, producing a flattened, almost understated profile that sits close to the water. The voussoirs, the wedge-shaped stones that form each arch, are dressed to a neat finish, and the slim piers taper into bluntly pointed cutwaters that divide the current upstream and downstream. Tierney had acquired the Kanturk and Churchtown estates from the Earl of Egmont in 1843, just five years before the bridge was completed. The structure replaced an earlier wooden bridge that had stood a short distance upstream, still visible on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842, suggesting Tierney moved fairly quickly to put something more permanent, and more legible as a statement of proprietorship, across the Dalua.