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Single-arched bridge carrying Main Street, Glenties, over the Stracashel River, built c. 1870 and possibly incorporating fabric of earlier bridge to site. Round-headed arch having squared and dressed sandstone voussoirs to arch; coursed rubble stone construction to arch barrel with cut stone stringcourse at arch springing point. Coursed rubble stone construction to spandrels and coursed rubble stone construction to parapets with cut stone coping over; roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course to inner faces of parapets. Water pipe to the south-east elevation. Tarmacadam deck with brick footpaths to either side. Concrete memorial to the north-west parapet, commemorating Patrick McGill (1889-1963) -‘The Navvy Poet’ – comprising central polished marble plaque (on rectangular-plan) with inscribed text having flanking upturned console brackets, and with pediment over. Located to the centre of Glenties.
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