Toughers were a practical solution to the Irish landscape, constructed from timber, brushwood, or other organic material pressed into soft ground, and they survive in bogs precisely because the waterlogged, anaerobic conditions that once made them necessary are the same conditions that preserve wood over centuries or even millennia. This particular example is classified as a class 3 togher, a designation that relates to its method of construction, and it runs on an east-west orientation, suggesting it once connected two points of significance across what would have been difficult, marshy terrain.

The only record of its existence comes from a communication with B. Raftery, the archaeologist Brian Raftery, whose work on Irish bog roads brought systematic attention to these often overlooked structures. Wetland archaeology of this kind depends heavily on chance observation and targeted survey, since the features themselves are invisible from the surface until the bog is cut or the water table shifts. The Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, which operated out of University College Dublin, undertook much of the fieldwork that brought sites like this one into the archaeological record during the late twentieth century. Without that work, a great many toughers across the Irish midlands would remain entirely unknown.