It measures just twenty metres long and less than a metre wide, yet its survival is the kind of quiet accident that archaeologists depend on. This is a togher, a timber trackway laid across wet or waterlogged ground to allow people, animals, or laden carts to pass without sinking. The peat that swallowed it also preserved it.

The Cloontamore togher is classed as a class 2 example, meaning it was built with some structural thought behind it. Longitudinal roundwood timbers of ash and oak run along the length of the track, and these rest on transverse roundwood of ash laid beneath them, providing a kind of raft effect across the soft ground. The whole structure runs on an east-southeast to west-northwest orientation, suggesting it was connecting two specific points in the landscape rather than wandering. Roundwood construction, using unsplit branches or small trunks rather than worked planks, was common in Irish bogland trackways and could be put together relatively quickly from available timber. The use of both ash and oak is notable; ash is tough and flexible, oak more resistant to decay, and the combination suggests a builder who understood the properties of local materials. The data behind this record was gathered by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit at University College Dublin, one of the research bodies that systematically documented Ireland's bogland archaeology before much of it was lost to turf cutting and drainage.