It is situated in the townland of Aghnacarra in the civil parish of Derrybrusk and the historic barony of Magherastephana.

[1] The hamlet is named from a bridge connecting the island of Inishmore in Upper Lough Erne with the mainland.

The area contains Derryharney Church of Ireland and the Carrybridge Hotel, as well as the bridge over the narrows at the outflow from Upper Lough Erne.

[2] On 11/12 December 1956, the bridge was damaged by a thirty-five pound mine which had been planted there by the Irish Republican Army during their 1956 campaign.

It was in temporary accommodation, but in March 2015 RNLI opened their first permanent inland lifeboat station at Carrybridge.