It is a togher, the Irish term for a wooden trackway laid across wet or boggy ground, and what survives here stretches at least 13.6 metres in length, running east to west through terrain that would otherwise have been impassable. The preserved depth of around 0.33 metres gives some sense of how these structures were engineered, with timber laid both transversely and longitudinally to distribute weight and resist the pull of soft ground.

The construction used roundwood with diameters between 0.06 and 0.1 metres, worked from alder, ash, and birch, three species well suited to wet conditions and readily available in the Irish landscape. Alder in particular has long been valued for its resistance to waterlogging, and its presence here is unlikely to be accidental. Toghers of this kind represent one of the more practical expressions of early engineering in Ireland, built not for ceremony or display but simply to allow people and animals to move through difficult ground. The classification of this example as a class 3 togher indicates a specific construction type within a broader typological framework developed through systematic study of Irish wetland roads, many of which survive only because the anaerobic conditions of bogland slow decay dramatically.