A togher, as these timber trackways are known in Irish, is essentially a causeway of layered wood, built to carry people and animals across ground too soft and waterlogged for ordinary travel. This one, running sixty metres east to west, sat undisturbed beneath the peat until peat milling operations exposed it across four fields, bringing its structure back into daylight after who knows how many centuries underground.

The construction is straightforward in principle but telling in detail. The trackway measures roughly two metres wide and half a metre thick, built from longitudinal runs of brushwood and roundwood laid together, the brushwood thinner and more flexible at two to five centimetres in diameter, the roundwood stouter at six to eight centimetres. Among the timber, two possible planks were also identified, which hints at a degree of effort that goes slightly beyond the most basic form of bog road. Class 1 toghers, as this type is classified, represent the simpler end of the timber trackway tradition, relying on bundled and laid wood rather than the elaborate mortised planks found in more complex examples. What this particular road connected, or when it was built, is not recorded in what survives, but its east-west orientation suggests it was purposefully aligned, not simply thrown down as a temporary fix.