It is a togher, a type of wooden road laid across wet or marshy terrain to allow people and animals to cross ground that would otherwise have been impassable. The Irish boglands preserve these structures with remarkable fidelity; the cold, acidic, oxygen-poor conditions that make peat so inhospitable to most organic matter are, paradoxically, what keep ancient wood intact for centuries.

This particular togher is classified as a class 3 trackway, a category based on construction method and complexity within a typological system developed to make sense of the many such roads found preserved in Irish wetlands. It was noted during a field survey in 1988, with its orientation recorded at the time by B. Raftery. The survey work formed part of broader research into Ireland's wetland archaeology, a field that has revealed an extraordinary density of prehistoric and early medieval infrastructure buried within the bogs. Toughers of various classes have been found across the Irish midlands, reflecting centuries of human movement through a landscape that was far wetter and more demanding than it appears today.