During one such operation, a compact band of brushwood came to light on a freshly milled surface, oriented north-east to south-west and measuring little more than a metre in length. Ten or so thin branches, each only two to three centimetres in diameter, lay tightly packed together, all pointing in the same direction. It is a modest find to look at, but it carries the hallmarks of something deliberate.

The arrangement, recorded by Dunne in 1999, is consistent with a peatland platform, a construction type found at various points across the Irish midlands. Such platforms were typically laid down by placing brushwood or timber directly onto soft or waterlogged ground, creating a stable surface for movement, work, or temporary occupation in terrain that would otherwise be impassable. The Cloonfore example appeared to continue beneath the existing ground level at its south-western end, suggesting that the portion exposed by milling was only a fragment of something larger, still preserved within the undisturbed bog. Peat is an exceptional preserving medium, excluding the oxygen that causes organic material to decay, which is why wood left in a bog for centuries or even millennia can survive in recognisable condition while the same material above ground would long since have vanished.