This is a togher, a type of wooden trackway built to carry people and perhaps animals across terrain that would otherwise have been impassable, and this particular example is modest by any measure, just 1.4 metres wide and roughly 18 centimetres deep.

What survives is a structure composed of longitudinal brushwood running along the length of the track, flanked on either side by roundwood, with birch and hazel the dominant materials. The choice of wood is telling: both species were common, fast-growing, and easy to work, making them practical choices for a construction that needed quantity over grandeur. Toghers like this one are classified by their method of construction, and a class 3 designation indicates this particular layering technique, brushwood as the core, roundwood as the frame. The east-west orientation suggests a deliberate line of travel across the bog, connecting points that would have had meaning to the communities who built and used it, even if those points are now lost to us. The work of recording sites like this one was carried out by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit at University College Dublin, a body that systematically surveyed Ireland's boglands before drainage and development could erase what the peat had spent so long protecting.