During fieldwalking surveys of the bog, researchers identified several toghers, an area stretching roughly 165 metres north to south and 202 metres east to west. Toghers are early medieval or prehistoric trackways built from timber and brushwood, laid down across waterlogged ground to allow people and animals to cross terrain that would otherwise have been impassable. They survive almost exclusively in bogland, where the acidic, oxygen-poor conditions can preserve organic material for thousands of years.

The discovery at Ballybeg was complicated by the fact that the toghers were being actively destroyed by peat milling at the time they were found. Industrial peat extraction, which strips and processes bog at considerable depth and speed, is one of the most destructive forces for this kind of buried archaeological material. The Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, based at University College Dublin, communicated the findings, and the site was noted in the Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary, compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien and published in 2002. How much of the trackway network survived the milling is not recorded, and the question hangs over the site in a way that is itself telling about the broader fate of bogland archaeology across the Irish midlands.