It is a togher, a term for the timber trackways and brushwood roads that ancient communities laid across Irish bogland to make passage possible where the ground would otherwise swallow a person whole. This particular example is classed as a class 3 togher, a designation reflecting its construction method and materials, part of a broader effort to catalogue the remarkable number of such structures that survive beneath Ireland's midland bogs.

The site was recorded during a field survey in 1988 and appears in Barry Raftery's 1990 survey of Irish trackways, which brought systematic attention to these often overlooked monuments. Raftery's work drew on fieldwork conducted across the Irish midlands and helped establish just how densely the bogs concealed evidence of movement and settlement across millennia. Toghers range from simple bundles of brushwood pressed into soft ground to more elaborate constructions of split planks and pegged timbers, and they were built across a long span of prehistory and into the early medieval period. The bog itself acts as an accidental archive, its acidic, oxygen-poor conditions slowing decay to a near-halt and preserving organic material that would vanish within years in ordinary soil.