A togher is a wooden trackway, typically constructed from split or whole timbers laid across waterlogged or unstable ground to allow passage where the terrain would otherwise have been impassable. This example is classified as a class 2 togher, a designation that relates to its method of construction, generally involving longitudinal planks or round wood laid along the direction of travel rather than across it. Such structures were built across many centuries, from the Bronze Age through to the early medieval period, and they survive in Ireland's bogs precisely because the waterlogged, oxygen-poor conditions that made them necessary in the first place also preserve the timber extraordinarily well.

Toghers are among the more evocative survivals in Irish archaeology, not because they are visually dramatic, but because they represent an entirely practical response to a landscape that was simultaneously inhabited and difficult. The boglands of Connacht were not empty wilderness; they were worked, crossed, and negotiated by communities who needed reliable routes between settlements, grazing grounds, and resources. A class 2 togher in a townland like Srahloughra would have served exactly that function, stitching together a local geography that outsiders might have read as obstacle. Beyond that general context, the specific details of this particular structure, its date, its dimensions, the circumstances of its discovery, remain unavailable at present.