The structure is a togher, a type of trackway laid across bogland to allow passage through terrain that would otherwise be impassable on foot. This particular example is a modest one, less than half a metre wide and under twenty centimetres deep, yet its very smallness is part of what makes it interesting. It was not a highway or a ceremonial route but something closer to a practical path, a local solution to a local problem of movement through wet ground.

The togher runs east to west and is built from hazel brushwood, with the individual stems averaging around three centimetres in diameter. Hazel was a common choice for this kind of construction throughout prehistoric and early medieval Ireland, being flexible, reasonably durable when waterlogged, and widely available in the scrubby woodland that often bordered bogland. The classification as a class 3 togher refers to the method of construction, in this case a simple bundle or mat of brushwood rather than more elaborate arrangements involving planks, pegs, or longitudinal runners. Bogs across the Irish midlands have yielded hundreds of such structures, ranging from the elaborate Iron Age road known as the Corlea Trackway, not far away in the same county, down to modest paths like this one.