These are toghers, a term for the timber trackways that early medieval communities laid down across boggy terrain to make otherwise impassable ground negotiable. At Killoran townland, field survey identified twenty-nine of them, a density that suggests this was no incidental crossing point but a landscape actively, repeatedly, and deliberately threaded with paths.

The survey, carried out by Gowen in 1999, found considerable variety in how these trackways were built. Fifteen consisted of brushwood alone, bundles of cut branches pressed into the soft ground to provide a firm surface underfoot. The remainder combined brushwood with roundwood, and three showed evidence of pegs or stakes, suggesting a more engineered approach where timber was driven into the bog to hold the structure in place. Wood identification was possible in thirteen of the toghers, and the species list reads almost like a catalogue of the early medieval Irish woodland: alder, ash, birch, elm, hazel, holly, and mountain ash, with ash and hazel appearing most frequently. Ash would have been prized for its strength and flexibility; hazel, a fast-growing and coppiceable shrub, was a practical and abundant choice for bundled brushwork. One togher, recorded as TN036-050164, yielded a radiocarbon date placing its construction somewhere between AD 1024 and 1162, a period spanning the late Viking Age and the eve of the Norman arrival in Ireland. Whether the others share that general period or represent a longer sequence of use across the bog remains unclear, but the sheer number of trackways points to sustained human movement through this part of Tipperary over a considerable stretch of time.