It cannot be walked, and for most of its existence it could not even be seen, sealed under centuries of accumulating peat. It came to light not through any deliberate archaeological effort but because Bord na Móna, the state peat-harvesting company, cut deep enough into the bog to expose it during commercial operations.

A togher is a timber trackway, typically constructed across boggy or waterlogged ground to allow passage that would otherwise be impossible. This particular example was one of three discovered in Littleton Bog, each spaced roughly a kilometre apart, and all serving the same practical purpose: linking the dryland of the townland of Leigh to the west with Bawnreagh to the east. When the National Museum investigated the site in 1960, the togher was traced through a series of excavated trenches running in a northwest to southeast direction. What survived included a plank, a stake, and a peg, the modest but legible remains of a engineered crossing. The other two toghers from the same bog lie within North Tipperary, and this one crosses into that territory as well. Published accounts by Rynne and Lucas document the finds, placing this togher within a wider corpus of Irish bog roads, some of which date back thousands of years and represent considerable communal labour in their construction.

The bog today is flat, open ground worked by Bord na Móna, with long sightlines in every direction. The medieval churches at Leighmore sit about 1.5 kilometres to the northwest, visible markers of the same landscape that the togher once helped people cross. The trackway itself is no longer accessible at the surface, but its location speaks to how persistently people found ways to move across terrain that seemed to resist movement entirely.