Bogs are extraordinary archivists, and the togher found here is a fine example of why archaeologists treat them with such attention.

A togher is a bog road or trackway, typically constructed to allow people or animals to cross otherwise impassable wetland. The Killoran example, recorded by Stevens in 1999, measured eighteen metres in length and between 1.2 and 2.35 metres in width. It was built from a single layer of longitudinal roundwood and brushwood, the kind of practical, low-technology engineering that would have been well within reach of a local community at almost any point across a broad sweep of Irish prehistory or early history. Particularly interesting is the small platform area identified to the north of the track itself. Whether this served as a loading point, a resting place, or something less easily categorised is not recorded, but its presence suggests the trackway was more than a simple crossing; it was a place where people paused and, in some sense, gathered.