It belongs to a category of ancient wooden trackway known as a togher, a term for causeways built across wet or marshy terrain, sometimes from split timber, brushwood, or woven rods, depending on the period and the available materials. The class 3 designation refers to a recognised typology within Irish wetland archaeology, distinguishing this togher by its construction method from the more elaborate, plank-laid examples found elsewhere in the Irish midlands.

The trackway came to light during a field survey in 1988 and was recorded by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, a body based at University College Dublin that undertook systematic investigation of bog roads across Ireland in the late twentieth century. The principal published reference for this site appears in Barry Raftery's 1990 work on Irish trackways, where it is catalogued with a schematic figure. Raftery was one of the foremost authorities on Irish wetland archaeology, and his surveys documented dozens of such features across the boglands of Leinster and Connacht. The Longford example is modest in the published record, a location, an orientation, a typological classification, but its existence points to a landscape that was once crossed regularly, where people had reason to move across ground that would otherwise have stopped them entirely.