It is a togher, the Irish term for a trackway built across wet or boggy ground, and this particular example belongs to what archaeologists classify as a class 3 construction, a category that typically involves less elaborate engineering than the great timber causeways of the Iron Age, but is no less purposeful for that.

The trackway was recorded during a field survey in 1988, and its orientation, running northeast to southwest, was noted at that time. The reference to Raftery 1990 places it within the broader cataloguing work of Barry Raftery, whose research on Irish bog roads helped establish a framework for understanding how people moved through the Irish landscape during prehistoric and early historic periods. Toghers of various classes appear throughout the Irish midlands, where low-lying wetlands made overland travel difficult or impossible without some form of laid surface. They were practical solutions, sometimes made from brushwood, split timbers, or whatever materials lay close at hand, pressed into the soft ground to create a passable route. The Annaghbeg example, modest in the record, represents one node in what was once a working network of paths threading through a waterlogged world.