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Single-arch hump-backed railway bridge, built c. 1856, carrying small road over former railway line (Inny Junction to Cavan line). Railway line now dismantled, arch now used as storage area. Gently curved elliptical-headed arch. Deck supported on brick jack vaults resting on six steel girders. Roughly dressed snecked rock-faced limestone masonry walls, battered to base. Arch flanked to either side (east and west) by projecting limestone piers. Chamfered dressed limestone string course at road level, continuing across projecting piers. Dressed limestone coping to parapet (with chamfered edge to outer faces), pyramidal-shaped dressed limestone capstones over projecting piers. Bridge flanked to either side by squared rubble limestone wing walls. Located to the southeast of Abbeylara, and to the south of Ballywillin Railway Station (13401105).
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