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Seven-span road bridge over River Shannon, built 1911, retaining nineteenth-century fabric. Central section resting on Hayes's Island which divides river into two channels. Road supported on steel structure of plate girders with parapets of riveted steel plates. Piers in river on east side of Hayes Island consist of concrete-filled cast-iron cylinders, continuing above parapet level, capped by carved domed caps with finials. Other piers, from bridge of 1834, of dressed limestone masonry the width of bridge, with rounded ends and supporting cut stone parapets. Opening section of bridge over navigation channel, revolving on pivotal support, on Galway bank of river. Abutments on opening span constructed of ashlar limestone masonry retained from nineteenth-century bridge. Detached three-bay single-storey tollhouse on Tipperary side of river, built c.1845, located on Hayes’s Island in centre bridge, having flat-roof porch, addition to rear, hipped slate roof with central stone chimneystack, dressed limestone walls with projecting plinth, rendered walls to addition, and with square-headed and segmental-headed openings with stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows.
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