The structure is classified as a togher, the Irish term for a trackway built through boggy or waterlogged terrain, and this particular example falls into the category known as a class 3 togher, indicating a relatively modest construction compared to the more elaborate multi-layered roads found elsewhere in the Irish midlands.

What remains is a compact layer of roundwood and brushwood, the individual rods measuring between two and five centimetres in diameter, woven or bundled together to form a panel roughly 1.3 metres wide and 0.2 metres deep. The materials are ash and hazel, both of which were commonly coppiced in early medieval Ireland for exactly this kind of work, being flexible, relatively straight, and quick to regrow after cutting. The panel runs on an east-west orientation. Whether it represents a single surviving section of a longer route, or an isolated crossing point over a particularly soft patch of ground, is not recorded. A hurdle panel of this kind would have functioned much like a portable section of flooring, pressed into the surface of the bog to distribute weight and prevent a traveller or animal from sinking. The fact that the bog preserved it at all is a consequence of the anaerobic, acidic conditions that make wetland archaeology so unusually productive in Ireland.