That is it. Sixty centimetres wide, seven centimetres deep, oriented east to west, this is a class 3 togher, and its very modesty is what makes it worth attention.

A togher is a timber trackway laid across boggy or waterlogged terrain, a type of construction found across Ireland from the Neolithic period through to the early medieval era. They range from elaborate multi-layered platforms of planks and pegs to the simplest of solutions: a few roundwood poles placed longitudinally to give a traveller's foot something firmer than peat to land on. This example belongs firmly to that simpler tradition. The three roundwoods, each averaging around six and a half centimetres in diameter, were cut from ash and hazel, both common native species and both well suited to the kind of light, workable timber needed for a structure that had to function in saturated ground. At class 3, this is among the most basic forms of togher recorded, essentially a minimal intervention in difficult terrain, engineered just enough to make passage possible. The bog that once made such a crossing necessary has also been responsible for preserving it, the anaerobic, waterlogged conditions slowing the decay that would long since have consumed timber left on dry land.