It is not dramatic in scale, barely the size of a modest kitchen table, but its survival is quietly remarkable. Organic materials almost never last in ordinary soils, yet bogs preserve wood, leather, and even human bodies with an eerie fidelity, thanks to their cold, acidic, oxygen-poor conditions. This particular structure had been sitting undisturbed in that anaerobic embrace for long enough that the surrounding peat still contained clearly visible plant material, including sedge, within a matrix of poorly humified pool moss, meaning moss that had not broken down significantly and so retained much of its original structure.

A survey carried out in 2006 by Archaeological Development Services, documented by Whitaker, recorded the platform measuring 2.6 metres in length, 1.5 metres in width, and 0.3 metres in depth. It was constructed from roundwood timbers laid lengthways on top of a supporting timber set crossways beneath them, a simple but deliberate technique of load distribution familiar from other bog platforms and trackways found across Ireland. The structure was oriented northwest to southeast and was described as fairly well preserved, except where the drain face and the field surface had left the wood exposed to the air and thus to decay. The individual timber elements measured between 0.27 and 0.38 metres in length and 0.06 to 0.1 metres in diameter, and at least one piece was identified as ash, a wood historically valued for its strength and flexibility. Peatland platforms of this kind are generally interpreted as working surfaces, providing stable footing or a dry base for activity in otherwise waterlogged ground, though without dating evidence it is difficult to say when exactly this one was in use.