This particular example is classified as a class 3 togher, a designation that refers to a specific method of construction, typically involving split or whole logs laid transversely across the soft ground, forming a kind of rudimentary road through terrain that would have been impassable on foot without it. Such trackways are among the more quietly remarkable survivals in the Irish archaeological record, preserved for centuries, sometimes millennia, by the very wetness that made them necessary in the first place.

The Cloontamore togher was noted during a field survey in 1988, attributed to the archaeologist B. Raftery, whose work on Irish bog roads helped bring wider attention to these often overlooked structures. The Irish boglands have yielded dozens of such trackways, ranging from Neolithic examples to those constructed in the early medieval period, and the act of building them represents a considerable communal investment in keeping routes open across a landscape that was both agriculturally important and socially significant. Wetlands in early Ireland were boundary places, liminal zones between territories, and the roads that crossed them carried a weight beyond mere practicality.