The bridge was closed to vehicles in the 1970s, when the British Army fixed concrete pillars onto the middle of it.
Since the Northern Ireland peace process, the bridge has been reopened to vehicular traffic.
[4] The bridge is on one of a small number of road routes used to access Drummully (also known as Coleman's Island or 'the Sixteen Townlands'), a pene-enclave of County Monaghan in the Republic of Ireland which is accessible by road only via County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland.
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