It is a togher, the Irish term for a trackway built across wet or marshy terrain, and this particular example belongs to what archaeologists classify as a class 3 construction, meaning it was recorded as a less elaborate form of bog road, likely composed of loosely laid timber or brushwood rather than the more carefully engineered plank or rail arrangements found elsewhere in the Irish midlands.

The trackway was noted during a field survey in 1988 and recorded by Barry Raftery, the archaeologist whose work on Irish bog roads remains foundational to the field. Tochars of this kind are far more numerous across the Irish midlands than most people realise. The bogs preserved them precisely because waterlogged, oxygen-poor conditions slow the decay of organic material, leaving wood that might otherwise have rotted centuries ago in a condition that allows dating and study. The midlands in particular, with their vast expanses of raised bog, have yielded dozens of such trackways, ranging from Neolithic examples to those built in the early medieval period. Many were functional, connecting islands of dry ground, linking settlements, or providing seasonal routes across terrain that shifted between passable and impassable depending on rainfall and the time of year.