Toghers were constructed over thousands of years, some dating back to the Bronze Age or earlier, and the raised bogs that preserved them did so with remarkable fidelity, keeping wood, tools, and occasionally far stranger things in near-perfect condition beneath the peat. This particular example was classed as a class 3 togher, a designation indicating something of its structural form, but its full character will never be known.

The reason it will never be known is blunt: the togher was destroyed before anyone had the chance to properly document it. Bogs across Ireland have been worked commercially and privately for generations, and the machinery involved in turf extraction has claimed countless archaeological features before they could be recorded. What survives here is little more than the fact of the thing's existence, a place-name, a classification, and the knowledge that something was there and is now gone. The Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, based at University College Dublin, had been working to survey and record bog roads and other wetland archaeology across the country, and this site entered the record only as a loss.