This is a togher, an ancient trackway laid across soft or marshy ground to allow people and animals to cross terrain that would otherwise have been impassable. The Cloonfore example is a class 3 togher, a relatively simple construction compared to the great plank roads of earlier periods, but no less revealing for that.

The togher was recorded in two sections, initially catalogued separately as 12A and 12B, before being recognised as parts of the same continuous structure. Together they run on a WSW-ENE orientation, with a total exposed length of around ten metres, a width of just over a metre, and a thickness of roughly 32 centimetres. The construction method is meticulous in its own modest way. Two larger pieces of brushwood, each between four and five centimetres in diameter, ran longitudinally along the sides and centre, forming a kind of loose frame. Between and around these, more than fifty smaller pieces of brushwood and twigs, tightly packed and similarly aligned along the length of the road, made up the body of the surface. Pegs were recorded along the centre line, likely used to hold the structure in place. The individual pieces of brushwood showed fractures consistent with transverse elements running underneath, though these were not directly visible, suggesting the togher had a more complex internal structure than its surface alone revealed. No evidence of woodworking was found; the materials appear to have been used largely as they came. At the time of recording, part of the togher was actively being milled, meaning machinery was cutting through the peat and, with it, through the road itself.