It is a togher, the Irish term for a timber trackway laid across bogland to allow people and animals to cross ground that would otherwise have been impassable. This particular example, a short section of split oak timbers and transverse roundwood laid in an east-west direction, runs across a strip of bog set between two low parallel ridges. What makes its situation quietly complicated is that another togher was already on record for this bog, reported to the National Museum of Ireland back in 1985 by the previous landowner and subsequently designated as a separate monument. Whether the bog once carried two crossing points, or whether the earlier report was simply imprecise about location, is now an open question.

The more recently exposed section, just 2.3 metres of it, came to light after the current landowner, drawing on knowledge passed down from their predecessor, flagged its presence to researchers at Atlantic Technological University in Sligo. Sam Moore, working in applied archaeology there, investigated and documented what had been uncovered. The construction is typical of a class 3 togher, one of several recognised categories of bog road that range from simple brushwood bundles to more carefully engineered timber platforms. Here, two split oak timbers run lengthways, kept in place by transverse roundwood members, with no visible tool marks or peg holes surviving on the exposed sections. To the west of the timber section, a line of five flat sandstone slabs, each roughly 40 by 30 centimetres and set about 40 centimetres apart, continued the route until an east-west drainage cut interrupted the sequence. Probing by the landowner after the initial find suggested the full togher extends for approximately 25 metres. The broader landscape context adds further interest: two raths, the circular earthwork enclosures associated with early medieval settlement, sit within several hundred metres to the north-west and north-east, suggesting this was once a reasonably well-organised agricultural territory where crossing the bog would have been a practical daily concern.