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Twelve-arch limestone bridge, built c.1750, carrying main Roscommon-Galway road over River Suck. Comprising random coursed stone walls, dressed voussoirs to arch-rings and full-height V-cut-waters to both up and downstream elevations and rising without break to level of parapets. Westernmost arch blocked up with limestone rubble. Pedestrian refuges to parapet. Parapet copings have slabs laid flat giving neat finish. Slight rise in bridge surface and arches increase in size towards centre of bridge. Slit opening over each arch for draining road surface. Soffits of arches all gunnelled. Tie-plates to each side of arches. Wrought-iron kissing gate to north-east within wall giving access to river's edge.
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