It belongs to a category of structure known as a togher, the Irish word for a roadway built across wet or waterlogged terrain. Tógherí were constructed by laying timber, brushwood, or other organic material across bogland to create a passable surface, and they range considerably in sophistication, from rough bundles of branches thrown down in a hurry to carefully engineered plank roads. A class 3 togher sits somewhere in the middle of that range, representing a modest but deliberate piece of infrastructure rather than a casual crossing.

The site was recorded during a field survey in 1988 and documented by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, a research body based at University College Dublin that systematically investigated bogland archaeology across the Irish midlands during the late twentieth century. The reference to Raftery 1990 points to the work of Barry Raftery, a leading scholar of Irish Iron Age and prehistoric archaeology whose surveys brought many such features to wider attention. The orientation of this togher, running north-west to south-east, may hint at the kind of local movement it was built to facilitate, perhaps linking drier ground on either side of a wet hollow, though the surviving record does not elaborate further on its date or the material from which it was made.