This one is classed as a class 3 togher, a designation that refers to a particular construction method within the broader tradition of Irish bog roads, a tradition stretching back thousands of years and representing some of the earliest engineered infrastructure on the island.

The site was noted during a field survey in 1988, a period when systematic investigation of Ireland's wetland archaeology was gaining considerable momentum. The observation came through the work associated with archaeological wetland research at University College Dublin, a project that brought many such features to scholarly attention for the first time. Toghers of this kind were typically built using timber laid lengthways or across a brushwood foundation, creating a firm surface over ground that would otherwise swallow a traveller whole. The bogs of the Irish midlands preserve such structures with remarkable fidelity, the anaerobic conditions slowing decay to a near standstill over centuries or even millennia.

The record for Cloontamore is sparse, noted rather than excavated, observed rather than fully investigated. What that brevity suggests is not insignificance but rather how much of Ireland's wetland archaeology remains at the threshold of knowledge, glimpsed during a survey, logged, and left waiting for further attention.