What they found was not a grand causeway but something altogether more modest and, in its way, more telling: a togher, the Irish term for a wooden trackway laid across wet or boggy ground, constructed from bundled brushwood pressed down over fen peat to create a passable surface across otherwise impassable terrain.

The Killoran trackway measured approximately 10.5 metres in length and 6.8 metres in width, making it a relatively substantial example of its type despite its poor state of preservation. Radiocarbon dating placed its construction somewhere between 1436 and 1310 BC, placing it firmly in the middle Bronze Age. What makes the find particularly interesting is its relationship with the ground beneath it: the brushwood deposits lay partly over burnt material associated with a fulacht fia, a type of ancient cooking site commonly found across Ireland and typically identified by a mound of fire-cracked stone beside a trough or pit that would have been filled with water and heated using those stones. The togher, then, was not simply dropped onto neutral ground; it was built in a landscape already marked by human activity, suggesting this patch of bogland in north Tipperary had seen repeated use over time. The excavation findings were recorded by Stevens in 1999.