It is a togher, the Irish term for a timber trackway laid across boggy or waterlogged ground, and this one was built from single planks arranged end to end, each measuring roughly 3.25 metres long and 0.4 metres wide. Local workers who knew the ground suggested the planks had been joined with wooden pegs, though turf freshly cut and footed along the banks made it impossible to confirm this when the site was first examined.

The trackway was investigated in 1964 by Peter Danaher, who found the planks resting on the turf roughly one metre above the base of the bog and just 37 centimetres below the then-current surface of the cut-away ground. The road runs in a north-east to south-west direction, and its orientation is not incidental: it points towards two disused burial grounds in the neighbouring townland of Killarida. Toghers often served very deliberate purposes, connecting communities to churches, markets, or sacred sites across terrain that would otherwise have been impassable on foot. In 1971, Donovan Hadley of Listowel came across further planks belonging to the same road, one of which was a split tree trunk approximately 4.5 metres long, suggesting the builders were willing to use whatever the local woodland provided, shaping whole trunks into serviceable road material when dressed planks were not available.

The bog has continued to be cut since these discoveries, and the surviving extent of the trackway is uncertain. What remains documented is a quiet piece of practical engineering, built to carry people across difficult ground, most likely towards the dead.