This concrete bridge in Athy spanning the River Barrow is one of Ireland’s first concrete bridges, which had originally had been opened by the Great Southern & Western Railway in 1918 to serve the collieries at Wolfhill. It remained in use until 2005 as a local crossing to serve the Tegral Cement factory in Athy. The bridge is a protected structure and as part of the construction of the near-complete Athy bypass, it will now enter a new era of service as part of a cycling greenway running parallel to the new vehicular bypass bridge.