A togher is an ancient trackway built across wet or marshy terrain, typically constructed from timber and brushwood laid down to create a passable surface over ground that would otherwise be impassable. This one runs north to south, five metres wide and around fifteen centimetres deep, and what survives is a compact layer of hazel brushwood, the individual stems ranging from just over a centimetre to four centimetres in diameter, packed together to bear the weight of whatever traffic once crossed it.

Beneath the brushwood, occasional roundwoods of ash were found acting as a base, and there is evidence that at least some of the timber used had been worked before being laid down. That detail of woodworking is quietly significant. It suggests this was not simply a matter of throwing cut branches into the mire, but that someone shaped or prepared the material with some deliberateness. Hazel and ash were both practical choices, hazel being flexible and commonly coppiced in early medieval Ireland, ash being harder and well suited to carrying load. The full dating of the structure is not recorded in what survives of the site description, but toghers of this type are broadly associated with Ireland's long tradition of bog road construction, stretching back thousands of years and representing one of the more enduring forms of early landscape engineering found in the Irish midlands.