Not a road of stone or gravel, but a carefully laid trackway of wood, built to carry people across ground that would otherwise swallow them whole. These structures, known as toghers, are among the more quietly remarkable survivals in Irish archaeology, ancient pathways preserved almost accidentally by the very wetness that made them necessary in the first place.

This particular togher runs on a northeast to southwest orientation and belongs to what archaeologists classify as a class 3 type, meaning it was constructed using transverse roundwood, lengths of timber laid across the direction of travel rather than along it, with brushwood packed both above and below to stabilise the surface and spread the load. The timbers range from around seven to twenty centimetres in diameter, modest pieces of wood that were once living trees. Ash and hazel were the dominant species used, both common in Irish woodland and well suited to working by hand. Crucially, toolmarks were recorded on the timbers, physical evidence that someone shaped this wood deliberately, with an axe or adze, before laying it down into the bog. That detail closes a considerable distance between the present and the past; the marks left by a blade on a piece of hazel are about as direct a human trace as archaeology tends to offer.