The structure is a single 32-metre span ashlar masonry elliptical arch bridge and was originally named Sarah's Bridge after Sarah Fane, Countess of Westmorland, wife of the then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, who laid the first stone on 22 June 1791.
The structure is an elliptical arch bridge with a single 32-metre span made of ashlar masonry, originally named after Sarah Fane, Countess of Westmorland, who initiated the construction on June 22, 1791.