A togher is a type of ancient trackway, typically built across boggy or waterlogged ground using timber, and this one is classified as a class 1 example, meaning it was constructed from longitudinally laid planks or paired planks set atop transverse brushwood foundations. The brushwood beneath acted as a kind of mattress, distributing the weight of foot traffic across unstable ground. The togher was traceable for roughly 105 metres, running east to west, and was identified at five separate sightings across the drain face and field surface.

Radiocarbon dating places its construction somewhere between 660 and 770 AD, a period corresponding broadly to the early Christian era in Ireland, when monastic settlements were active across Connacht and bog roads served as vital routes through an otherwise impassable landscape. What makes this particular togher quietly remarkable is not just its age but its company: running almost exactly parallel, just eight metres to the south, lies a second togher. Two roads, built in close proximity, oriented along the same axis, suggest this was a corridor of some deliberate importance in its time, not an improvised crossing but part of a considered approach to movement through difficult terrain. Whether the two were in use simultaneously or represented successive phases of the same route is not recorded, but their proximity is difficult to read as coincidence.