Somewhere beneath the boggy ground near Drehid in County Kildare lies a togher, one of those ancient trackways that the Irish constructed from timber and brushwood to make passage across waterlogged terrain possible. Toghers are among the quieter achievements of early Irish engineering; laid down across bogs and marshes, sometimes stretching for considerable distances, they allowed people, livestock, and goods to move through landscapes that would otherwise have been impassable. They range in age from the Bronze Age through to the early medieval period, and many have survived for thousands of years precisely because the anaerobic conditions of a bog preserve organic material that would rot away in drier ground.

Drehid sits in a part of Kildare that edges onto the wider bogland of the Irish midlands, a landscape shaped by centuries of peat accumulation over what were once lakes and fens left behind by retreating glaciers. The presence of a recorded togher here is not surprising in that context, though each one that comes to light carries its own particular interest, whether as evidence of a local route connecting farms and settlements or as part of a longer pathway through otherwise difficult country. Without further specific detail available for this site, the full picture of its date, construction, and purpose remains to be established.