This is a togher, a type of wooden trackway laid across wet or marshy ground to allow passage where the earth would otherwise swallow a traveller whole. The Irish boglands preserve such structures with remarkable fidelity, sealing timber in their anaerobic depths for centuries or even millennia.

What makes this particular find quietly complex is the suggestion that there may not be one togher here but two, laid along the same east-west orientation and overlying one another within a remarkably compact area of just 2.75 metres by 0.4 metres. The construction method is what archaeologists classify as class 3, meaning the trackway is composed of longitudinal roundwood, timber placed lengthways along the direction of travel rather than laid crosswise like stepping stones. The roundwood is mostly hazel, with some birch, both species that would have been readily coppiced and managed in early Irish woodland. Hazel in particular was a workhorse material in early medieval and prehistoric Ireland, supple enough to weave and strong enough to bear load. The overlapping of two toghers in the same alignment raises the possibility that this crossing point was returned to and rebuilt, suggesting it mattered to whoever lived and moved through this landscape across a considerable span of time.