It is a class 3 togher, a category of wooden road or pathway built across boggy or waterlogged ground, typically constructed from timber planks, brushwood, or other organic material laid down to allow passage where the ground would otherwise be impassable. The bogs of the Irish midlands hold dozens of such structures in various states of preservation, most of them invisible from the surface and known only through excavation or chance exposure.

This particular togher came to light during field survey work in 1988, noted by B. Raftery, a scholar closely associated with the study of Irish bog roads and trackways. Toghers vary considerably in their construction and date, ranging from the Bronze Age through to the early medieval period and beyond, built by communities for whom reliable movement across wetlands was a practical necessity, whether for accessing grazing land, transporting goods, or maintaining social and economic connections between settlements. The midlands boglands, including those of Longford, were not empty margins but working landscapes, and the toghers that cross them are among the more direct pieces of evidence for how people organised themselves around difficult terrain.