In 1958, turf cutters working at Timoney uncovered a stone-laid trackway, a togher, buried roughly 1.5 metres below the surface of the peat. A togher is an ancient roadway built across boggy or waterlogged ground, and the Timoney example is a particularly deliberate piece of engineering: flat sandstone slabs, some laid singly, others stacked in up to five layers to produce a surface roughly 38 centimetres thick, all resting on a prepared bed of brushwood. The whole structure was about 2.4 metres wide and ran north to south across the bog, with lines of stakes driven into the peat along each edge to contain it. Alongside the trackway, cutters also found two large wooden troughs.

A radiocarbon date derived from a yew stump bearing axe-cuts, found close to and at roughly the same depth as the trackway, places the construction somewhere between 1280 and 1520 AD, squarely in the late medieval period. The troughs lay below the trackway, meaning they are older still; the dated stump effectively gives a point before which both features must have existed. The finds did not stop there. Human bones were recovered from between the two troughs, and a stone ball of fine-grained quartz sandstone, nearly seven metres in diameter according to the recorded measurement, was found on the trackway itself. The combination of human remains, wooden troughs, and a carefully engineered road in an open bog raises questions that no one has fully answered. Bogs across Ireland have yielded objects and bodies deposited with apparent deliberateness, and Timoney fits uneasily into that pattern without resolving it.

A substantial portion of the bog where the original discovery was made has since been cut away entirely. More recent inspection of the current bog face did turn up further worked wood at about 1.4 metres below the present surface, including tightly packed brushwood and two rough roundwood timbers, possibly birch, oriented in a broadly north-east to south-west direction. Whether this represents a separate structure or a continuation of the same road system is not yet clear.