Toghers are among the more quietly remarkable survivals in the Irish archaeological record, constructed across bogs and marshes over thousands of years, from the Neolithic period well into the early medieval. A class 3 togher is a relatively simple form of such a structure, typically consisting of loosely laid roundwood or planks rather than the more elaborate jointed and pegged engineering seen in prestige examples like the Iron Age Corlea Trackway, which was uncovered not far away in the same county.

This particular togher came to light during a field survey in 1989, noted by B. Raftery, a scholar closely associated with the study of Irish wetland archaeology and bog roads. The find was later compiled as part of work drawing on research from the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit at University College Dublin, a project dedicated to recording the extraordinary concentration of ancient trackways preserved in Irish midland bogs. Preservation in bogland is often exceptional: the waterlogged, acidic conditions that make peat bogs so inhospitable to ordinary life are precisely what protect organic materials, including ancient timber, from decay across centuries or millennia. A togher that might have rotted away entirely in open ground can survive in a bog as though it were laid last season.