This is a togher, an ancient trackway built from cut wood and pressed into boggy terrain to allow people or animals to cross ground that would otherwise have been impassable. Unlike the more celebrated Iron Age plank road uncovered nearby, this particular example belongs to what archaeologists classify as a class 3 togher, a rougher, more improvised type of construction: brushwood rather than hewn timber, laid lengthways rather than carefully assembled.

What survives measures at least 3.4 metres in length and 1.6 metres in width, with the material sitting at a depth of around seven centimetres. The branches, almost all hazel with some occasional roundwood mixed in, run in a broadly east-west orientation, suggesting a deliberate line of passage rather than casual dumping. Hazel was commonly used in early Irish wetland construction for its flexibility and relative abundance, and its presence here in near-exclusive quantity points to a purposeful, if modest, effort to manage movement through difficult terrain. The site is documented in the work of Barry Raftery, whose research through the 1990s brought systematic attention to the extraordinary concentration of bog roads preserved in this part of the Irish midlands.