It is a togher, the Irish word for a bog road, and this one is just a metre wide and barely twelve centimetres deep, running on a north-north-east to south-south-west alignment through what would have been saturated, treacherous terrain. Small in scale, it is easy to underestimate what it represents in practical terms: someone, at some point, solved a problem of movement through a difficult landscape using precisely the materials the surrounding environment offered.

The construction is specific and deliberate. The road is built from longitudinal ash roundwood, poles up to about seven centimetres in diameter laid lengthways, with hazel brushwood averaging around two centimetres packed alongside or beneath, and some twigs filling the gaps. Ash and hazel were the workhorses of early Irish woodland craft, both flexible and reasonably durable when kept wet, which boggy ground conveniently ensures. The record notes good evidence of woodworking, meaning the timber was not simply gathered and thrown down but shaped and prepared before use. Toghers like this one appear across Irish boglands in considerable numbers, ranging in sophistication from rough bundles of brushwood to more engineered platforms of split planks, and are classified accordingly; this is a class 3 example, placing it in the middle range of complexity.