It is a togher, a type of ancient trackway built from timber, brushwood, or other organic material laid across wet or marshy ground to make it passable. Togher construction is one of the more quietly remarkable feats of early Irish engineering, requiring detailed knowledge of the local terrain and a community effort to source and place the materials. This particular example is classified as a class 3 togher, a designation used in the systematic cataloguing of Irish wetland roads to indicate a specific construction type within a broader family of bog trackways.

The site was noted during a field survey carried out in 1988, with the observation credited to B. Raftery, a scholar closely associated with the study of Irish wetland archaeology and bog roads in particular. The broader context for this kind of discovery belongs to a period of intensified research into Ireland's peatland archaeology, when the vulnerability of bogs to drainage and industrial cutting made systematic survey work increasingly urgent. Togher sites across the Irish midlands were being identified and recorded before the landscapes that preserved them could be altered or lost entirely. Cloontamore, like many townlands in County Longford, sits within a region whose waterlogged soils have kept organic remains intact for centuries, sometimes millennia, in conditions that drier ground simply cannot replicate.