What makes this particular example quietly notable is its classification as a class 3 togher, a category that typically denotes a less elaborate form of construction than the carefully engineered plank roads found at more celebrated sites, but no less purposeful for that. These were working routes, built by people who needed to move across terrain that would otherwise have swallowed a traveller whole.

The site was noted during a field survey in 1988, with the observation attributed to B. Raftery, a name well associated with Irish bog road research. Ireland's wetlands have preserved thousands of years of organic material that would have perished in drier conditions, and tögher discoveries have emerged from bogs across the midlands and west in particular, some dating back several thousand years. The Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, based at University College Dublin, was responsible for systematically recording many of these sites before drainage, peat cutting, or development could erase them. Derrynaskea's togher entered that record as a result of that broader effort to map what the bogs had quietly kept.