It is easy to overlook, and that is rather the point. Toghers, the Irish term for causeways or trackways laid across wet or boggy ground, were once a practical necessity across Ireland's midlands, where movement through waterlogged terrain without some form of footing could be treacherous or simply impossible. This one belongs to what archaeologists classify as a class 3 togher, meaning it was constructed from longitudinal roundwood, that is, roughly cylindrical lengths of timber laid lengthways along the direction of travel rather than across it.

The timbers recorded here, the largest no more than around eleven centimetres in diameter, were cut from ash, oak, and birch, the kinds of woodland species that would have grown around the margins of bogland throughout the Irish midlands. The trackway runs on a northwest to southeast orientation, suggesting it was laid with a deliberate route in mind, connecting points on either side of what was then, presumably, an area of soft or flooded ground. When it came to light, it was visible only on one face of a drainage cut, meaning the full extent of the structure remains unknown, with much of it likely still preserved beneath the surrounding peat.