It is a togher, a term used in Irish archaeology for a timber trackway laid across wet or marshy ground, allowing people and animals to move through terrain that would otherwise have been impassable. Tóghar survive in bogs precisely because the waterlogged, oxygen-poor conditions that make peat so inhospitable to human activity are also remarkably effective at preserving ancient wood.

This particular example is classed as a class 3 togher, a category within a typological system developed to organise the considerable variety of these structures found across Irish wetlands. It was recorded during a field survey in 1988 and published by Barry Raftery in 1990, in a study that brought together evidence for prehistoric roads and trackways from across the island. The east-west orientation noted at the time of survey is one of the few details the record preserves, but it is not a trivial one: the alignment of a togher often reflects the logic of the landscape it was threading through, connecting drier ground on either side of a bog, or linking settlements, grazing areas, or routeways that have long since vanished from view.