This footbridge crosses the Yellow Ford River from which the town of Athboy derives its name. Oral folklore tells us that it was at this point that the original street of Athboy crossed the river leading to the Fair Green and the Hill of Ward/Tlachtga, an ancient Druidic settlement.
The first footbridge was built here in 1842 when Lord Darnley, through his agent Lambert Disney, paid a local builder, Robert Donnelly, the sum of ten pounds to construct a wooden footbridge across the river and a further three pounds to make a path to it. That bridge survived until 1924. In that year, Trim Rural District Council, the Local Authority responsible for the Athboy area, sanctioned the construction of the metal footbridge which has survived to the present day, at a cost of forty nine pounds and ten shillings.
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