These structures are among the more quietly remarkable survivals in the Irish landscape, built by communities who needed to move across terrain that would otherwise have swallowed a traveller whole. The one recorded at Carta is classified as a class 1 togher, the most substantial category, suggesting a construction of some deliberate engineering rather than a rough seasonal path.

Toghers as a category span an enormous stretch of Irish prehistory and early history, with some examples dated through dendrochronology and radiocarbon analysis to the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, and the early medieval period. They were not incidental features; in a landscape dominated by raised bog and wetland, a well-made togher represented real communal investment, and the best-preserved examples found elsewhere in Ireland have yielded beautifully intact timber, preserved by the very waterlogged conditions that made the road necessary in the first place. The Carta togher sits within a part of Galway where such conditions would have been historically common, and its classification points to a structure of some scale and consequence in its original context, though the specific details of its construction, date, and current state of preservation are not yet widely available.