A togher is a causeway or trackway built across wet or marshy ground, typically from timber and brushwood, allowing people, animals, and goods to cross terrain that would otherwise swallow them whole. This particular example is modest in its dimensions but precise in its survival: two metres wide and just fourteen centimetres deep, oriented along an east-southeast to west-northwest line, as though someone once knew exactly where they needed to go.

The structure consists of a tightly packed deposit of longitudinal roundwood and brushwood, the roundwood averaging about five centimetres in diameter, the finer brushwood just one and a half centimetres. The materials are alder, birch, and hazel, all native Irish species well suited to waterlogged ground, where the absence of oxygen slows decay and preserves organic material across centuries or even millennia. The combination of longitudinal timbers laid along the direction of travel with finer brushwood packed between them is characteristic of a class 3 togher construction, a category that reflects both the engineering approach and the likely volume of use the trackway was built to support. Toghers of this kind are among the more common wetland archaeological finds in the Irish midlands, where the raised bogs that once covered vast areas were both an obstacle to movement and, paradoxically, the very environment that preserved evidence of how people navigated them.