This particular example is classified as a class 3 togher, a category that generally refers to simpler constructions, often made from loosely laid brushwood, branches, or basic timber, rather than the more elaborate planked or pegged roadways found elsewhere in Irish wetlands. The bog, in its way, is one of the more reliable archivists in the archaeological record; the waterlogged, oxygen-poor conditions that make peatland so difficult to cross are precisely what preserve organic materials for centuries, sometimes millennia.

The trackway at Annaghbeg was identified during a field survey in 1988 and runs on a north-west to south-east orientation. It was recorded by Barry Raftery, whose 1990 work on Irish trackways brought systematic attention to the many such features scattered across the Irish midlands. Tогhers as a category range enormously in age and sophistication; some date back to the Bronze Age or earlier, while others are medieval or more recent, built by local communities to connect fields, settlements, or grazing grounds across boggy terrain. Without further dating evidence, the precise age of the Annaghbeg example is not established from what is currently known, but its presence points to a time when this stretch of wetland was a real obstacle in daily movement, and someone went to the trouble of solving that problem with timber and effort.