It belongs to a category of ancient Irish infrastructure known as a togher, the Gaelic term for a bog road, a structure laid across soft or waterlogged ground to allow movement through terrain that would otherwise have been impassable. These were working solutions to a real and persistent problem in a landscape defined by bog and marsh.

This particular togher is classed as a class 3 example, a designation that relates to its method of construction and the materials used, typically involving split or rounded timbers arranged to form a surface across the wet ground. It was recorded during a field survey in 1988 and is orientated east to west, suggesting it served a deliberate route across the bog rather than a short local crossing. The reference to Raftery 1990 points to the work of Barry Raftery, the Irish archaeologist whose research into bog roads and wetland archaeology brought sites like this one to wider scholarly attention. Toghers range considerably in age, with some dating back thousands of years, and their preservation in anaerobic, waterlogged conditions means that organic material that would decay almost anywhere else survives here in detail.