That name tells you something important about the ground underfoot. This was a funeral path, a route used to carry the dead between two religious sites: Templecross church and graveyard, roughly 420 metres to the south-west, and Tristernagh Abbey, about 160 metres to the east. The bridge carried that procession across a small stream or drain, and the wet, poorly drained land on either side has changed little in character since.

What survives of the bridge is modest: a mortared limestone structure with a single round arch, of which only portions of the northern and southern ends remain intact. The surrounding landscape holds other traces of earlier use. A field immediately to the south of the bridge contains what may have been a fish-pond, a feature commonly associated with medieval religious houses, which would manage their own food supplies and often maintained carefully dug or dammed water features for that purpose. The proximity to Lough Iron, whose western shore lies roughly 420 metres to the east-north-east, would have made this low-lying ground both useful and difficult to manage. One further detail vanished sometime after 1837, when the Ordnance Survey six-inch map recorded a bush beside the bridge, annotated as "Doherty's Bush". Whatever significance the name carried, the bush itself is long gone.