It was never grand; at roughly 1.2 metres wide, it was barely wide enough for a person to walk with confidence. What survives today is fragmentary, largely milled away by peat-cutting machinery, but the traces that remain are enough to tell the story of a practical, quietly ingenious solution to the problem of moving through a wet landscape.

A togher, from the Irish tóchar, is a causeway or trackway built across boggy or marshy ground, typically constructed from timber, brushwood, or a combination of both. This particular example is classified as a class 2 togher, meaning it was built primarily from brushwood laid longitudinally, that is, running along the direction of travel rather than across it. The surviving remains, recorded as two separate exposures on either side of a drain, extend to an overall length of 15.3 metres. The brushwood pieces range from around 1 to 5 centimetres in diameter, with larger pieces, up to 5 centimetres across, used to define the edges and hold the structure together. Both sections run on an east-west to west-northwest to east-southeast alignment. The site was first identified during the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit survey carried out by University College Dublin, a project that systematically recorded bogland monuments across Ireland in the 1990s; the presence of old bamboo growing in the nearby drain was taken as evidence that fieldworkers had visited previously. The find was formally documented by Jane Whitaker of Archaeological Development Services and published by Dunne in 1999.