It is easy to overlook a structure so modest in its dimensions, but this is a togher, an ancient Irish bog road, and its very survival is a consequence of the same acidic, oxygen-poor conditions that made crossing the bog so difficult in the first place.

The togher was built from transverse roundwood and brushwood, using birch and hazel, the kinds of material that would have been readily available at the woodland margins surrounding Irish midland bogs. Laying branches and small timbers crosswise across soft ground is one of the oldest engineering solutions known in Ireland, and examples have been found dating back thousands of years. The Corlea area of County Longford is particularly associated with this kind of ancient trackway; the nearby Corlea Trackway, a much larger Iron Age road discovered close by, has made the townland something of a focus for wetland archaeology. This smaller class 3 togher, a designation indicating a relatively simple, lightweight construction, represents a quieter chapter of the same long story of people moving across a landscape that resisted movement.