This is very likely the longest clapper bridge in Ireland.
It consists of 37 arches crossing the small Bunleemshough River, extending east-west (85°-265°), over a span of about 59 metres. It is 60 to 80 centimetres wide.
Clapper Bridges were prehistoric footbridges to cross shallow streams and rivers, but this one was built sometimes between 1840 and 1850 as part of a work carried out by the Irish Church Mission, a Protestant colony which received the land from the Marquis of Sligo.
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