The bridge is not ruined in any dramatic sense; it has simply been overtaken, its stonework quietly consumed by growth while the road it once served has itself become a ghost, a narrow disused track running roughly northwest to southeast on the eastern side.

What survives is one segmental arch, meaning a shallow curved arch describing less than a full semicircle, with a span of 2.7 metres. The voussoirs, the wedge-shaped stones that form the curve of an arch and hold it in compression, are roughly cut sandstone rather than anything finely dressed. The overall bridge width of 4.5 metres suggests something built to carry a meaningful road rather than a farm track, and the surviving arch is thought to be one of two or three that originally crossed the river. The missing spans likely fell or were robbed out at some point after the road fell out of use, leaving this single bay stranded on the bank, its purpose dissolved along with whatever traffic once moved through this part of mid-Cork.