Toghers were essentially roads built into wetlands, constructed from timber, brushwood, or other organic material pressed into the soft peat to create a firm surface where none existed naturally. This one was recorded as a class 3 togher, a designation that reflects its construction type within a broader typology of Irish bog roads.

The trackway was identified during a field survey in 1988 and runs on a north-east to south-west orientation, a detail that hints at the route it was once meant to serve, connecting two points now largely lost to time and landscape change. The record draws on the work of Raftery, published in 1990, which placed this togher within a wider study of Irish wetland archaeology. Bogland has long been understood as an extraordinary preserving medium: the cold, acidic, oxygen-poor conditions that make it so hostile to the living are precisely what keep organic remains intact for centuries or millennia. Toghers found across Ireland range in date from the Neolithic period through to the early medieval era, and while no date has been attached to this particular example from the available information, its survival into the survey record at all is a consequence of that same preservation.