Not a road in any modern sense, but a togher, an ancient trackway built from timber laid across waterlogged ground to allow people and animals to cross what would otherwise have been impassable terrain. This particular example, found at Cloonbreany, is modest in scale, just 0.7 metres wide and preserved to a depth of 0.25 metres, yet it represents a quietly extraordinary piece of engineering from a world that had to solve the problem of Irish bogland long before tarmac or drainage.

The togher runs on an east-west orientation and was constructed using longitudinal brushwood, meaning branches and small stems laid lengthways along the line of travel, with occasional roundwood of birch and hazel worked in among them. Birch and hazel were both commonly available in the Irish landscape and well suited to this kind of use, flexible enough to be woven or stacked, and reasonably resistant to decay when kept wet and sealed under peat. Toghers were built across Ireland's midland bogs over a very long span of time, from the Bronze Age through to the early medieval period and beyond, and without laboratory dating it is difficult to place any individual example more precisely. What can be said is that someone, at some point, decided that this particular stretch of ground was worth crossing regularly enough to justify the labour of building a road across it.