A togher, as these bog roads are known, was a practical solution to a persistent Irish problem: how to move people, animals, or goods across terrain that would otherwise swallow them. This particular example was recorded in 1988, by which point it was already extensively damaged, preserving only a small remnant measuring roughly two and a half metres long, two metres wide, and barely five centimetres deep.

Radiocarbon dating placed its construction somewhere between 1523 and 1321 BC, a period when the midland bogs were criss-crossed with such structures, and communities clearly invested considerable effort in maintaining passage through the landscape. The date comes from a measurement of 3180 plus or minus 45 radiocarbon years, a figure that anchors this modest scatter of wood firmly in the Bronze Age. Toghers of this kind were not grand engineering projects; they were local and functional, built from whatever timber and brushwood was close to hand, and they survived only because the anaerobic conditions of the bog slowed decay to almost nothing. Raftery's catalogue of Irish bog roads, published in 1996, documents this example alongside dozens of others, each one a trace of movement through a world that would otherwise leave almost no physical mark.