It is a togher, the Irish term for a timber trackway laid across wet or marshy ground to allow people, animals, and perhaps goods to pass where the land would otherwise swallow a traveller whole. This particular example is a class 3 togher, a designation that refers to its construction method rather than any modern road hierarchy.

The trackway runs on an east-northeast to west-southwest orientation and measures 3.75 metres wide, which suggests it was built to accommodate more than a single person on foot. Its depth of just 0.15 metres gives a sense of how close to the surface it sits, preserved by the anaerobic conditions of the bog. The structure consists of transverse roundwood timbers of ash, each up to around 10 centimetres in diameter, laid across the line of travel and supported underneath by a bed of brushwood, principally ash and birch, with an average diameter of roughly 2.2 centimetres. This brushwood layer acted as a foundation mat, distributing weight across the soft ground below. The combination of materials is practical and local: ash is strong and flexible, birch produces abundant thin growth, and both would have been readily available at the margins of an Irish wetland. The care taken in the construction points to a crossing that mattered to the community who built it, even if their names and their purposes are now entirely lost.