But the bog gave up more than one road, and among the less celebrated discoveries is a togher of a quieter, more utilitarian kind, built not from hewn oak planks but from the kind of material any person working at the edge of a wetland might have gathered by hand.

A togher is a causeway or trackway laid across boggy ground, typically to allow people, animals, or carts to cross terrain that would otherwise be impassable. This particular example is classified as a class 3 togher, just under a metre wide at 0.94 metres and roughly 22 centimetres in depth. Its construction follows a pattern found across Irish wetlands: a substructure of longitudinal roundwood and brushwood, including hazel, laid down to spread the load across soft ground, topped with a superstructure of longitudinal roundwood in birch and ash. The use of birch and ash, both reasonably flexible and workable when fresh, alongside hazel brushwood suggests a practical, possibly opportunistic build rather than a large organised engineering effort. The contrast with the massive oak plank road found nearby is telling; Corlea's bog landscape was crossed and recrossed by people at different times, for different purposes, using whatever the surrounding woodland offered.