This particular example is classed as a class 3 togher, a category that typically refers to relatively simple constructions, laid down without the elaborate carpentry of some of the more celebrated Iron Age or Bronze Age examples found elsewhere in the Irish midlands. The bogs of Longford have preserved many such routes in near-perfect condition, the anaerobic, waterlogged environment slowing decay to a standstill over centuries or even millennia.

The togher at Derraghan More came to notice during a field survey carried out in 1988, recorded through the work of B. Raftery, a scholar closely associated with Irish wetland archaeology. The survey was part of a broader effort by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, based at University College Dublin, to document the remarkable concentration of bog roads and trackways across the Irish midlands before peat extraction and drainage could destroy them. Tоghers like this one were not incidental features; they represent organised, deliberate effort to manage movement through a landscape that was otherwise a serious obstacle, and they speak to the density of activity, agricultural, social, and economic, that once threaded through terrain we might now think of as remote or marginal.