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Single-arch canal bridge carrying road over Royal Canal, built c. 1815, having flat road deck. Elliptical-headed arch with dressed ashlar limestone voussoirs and dressed ashlar limestone masonry to barrel. Dressed ashlar limestone construction to spandrel walls, with cut limestone string course at road/deck level. Dressed ashlar limestone construction to parapets (formerly rendered) with curving ends terminated in dressed ashlar limestone piers (on square-plan). Rubble limestone construction to inner faces of parapets. Dressed limestone coping over parapet walls. Cut limestone name plaques (on square-plan) having moulded raised margins to outer faces of parapets inscribed ‘Draper’s Bridge’. Dressed limestone retaining walls to canal banks (north and south). Rubble limestone wing walls to ends of bridge, rounded dressed limestone coping over wing walls in places. Located to the southeast of Taghshinny, and to the west of Abbeyshrule. Canal lock (13402342) and associated canal lock keeper’s house (13402343) adjacent to the east and southeast respectively.
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