It belongs to a category of ancient trackway known as a togher, a timber or brushwood path laid down across wet ground to allow passage through terrain that would otherwise have been impassable. This particular example is classified as a class 3 togher, a designation indicating its construction type within a broader typology of Irish bog roads that range from simple bundles of brushwood to more elaborate arrangements of planks and pegs.

The trackway was recorded during a field survey in 1988 and runs on a north-east to south-west orientation, a detail that hints at the kind of purposeful, directed movement it was built to facilitate, connecting places, crossing difficult ground, getting somewhere. The reference to Raftery 1990 points to the work of Barry Raftery, the archaeologist whose extensive research into Irish bog roads and wetland archaeology did much to bring these submerged features to wider scholarly attention. Tогhers of various kinds are found across the Irish midlands, where the raised bogs that accumulated over millennia preserved organic materials that would have rotted away in drier conditions. That preservation is precisely what makes them remarkable: wooden structures that might otherwise survive only as post-holes or stains in the soil have endured here, sometimes for thousands of years, held in the cold and airless peat.