It is not a dramatic find in the conventional sense, yet its very modesty is part of what makes it worth pausing over. Aligned northwest to southeast, the structure consists of longitudinal brushwood laid over a single supporting roundwood timber, and the whole thing was already in poor condition when archaeologists came to record it. What survives is a fragment, most likely the remnant of a platform, the kind of low constructed surface that people in earlier centuries built across boggy or waterlogged ground to create a stable working or standing area.

Peatland archaeology of this kind is easily overlooked, but bogs are among the best preservers of organic material in Ireland. Waterlogged, acidic, and low in oxygen, they can hold timber in a legible state for centuries or even millennia, long after equivalent structures on dry land have rotted entirely away. The brushwood and roundwood recorded at Cloonbreany offer only the barest outline of whatever activity once took place here, and the evidence stops well short of allowing any firm conclusions about date or purpose. The site was documented by Jane Whitaker of Archaeological Development Services, with the record compiled by Mary Tunney.