It is a togher, a type of ancient trackway built across wet or marshy terrain using timber, brushwood, or other organic material laid directly into the bog. Toghers were not grand engineering projects but practical solutions, ways of moving people, animals, and goods across landscapes that would otherwise have been impassable for much of the year. The one at Cloontamore is classified as a class 3 togher, a category that broadly indicates its construction method and scale, though the bog itself has done most of the work of preserving it.

The site was noted during a field survey carried out in 1988, with the observation attributed to the archaeologist B. Raftery. The Irish midlands hold a remarkable concentration of such features, and their survival depends almost entirely on the anaerobic conditions of the peat, which slows decay to a near standstill. Bogs have yielded toghers dating back thousands of years across Ireland, and each one represents a now-vanished pattern of movement across a landscape that has since been transformed by drainage and turf-cutting. Cloontamore's togher sits within that broader tradition, quietly intact beneath ground that was once far wetter and more treacherous than it appears today.