It is a togher, the Irish term for a road or causeway built across wet or boggy ground, and this particular example is classified as class 3, a designation used by researchers to describe a particular method of construction typically involving brushwood, planks, or other organic material laid directly onto the bog surface to create a passable surface across otherwise impassable terrain.

Toghers are among the more quietly remarkable survivals in the Irish archaeological record. Because peat bogs are anaerobic environments, organic materials that would rot away in ordinary soil can be preserved for centuries or even millennia. The Cloonmore togher was recorded by B. Raftery during fieldwork, at a time when systematic surveying of Irish wetlands was beginning to reveal just how many of these ancient trackways remained unrecorded. The work was carried out under the auspices of the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit at University College Dublin, a research programme that documented bog roads across the Irish midlands. The east-west orientation of this particular togher is a detail worth noting; such alignments were rarely accidental, and often reflect the most practical route between settled ground on either side of a stretch of bog.