It measures at least 1.1 metres in length and just nine centimetres in diameter, and it leans there with no obvious companion. No other archaeological timber was found nearby. Whatever structure it once belonged to, almost nothing remains.

The post was recorded by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit at University College Dublin in 1995, as part of broader efforts to document what Ireland's boglands preserve beneath their surface. Peatlands are remarkable archives; the low-oxygen, acidic conditions that make them agriculturally marginal are precisely what allow organic materials, including wood, leather, and textile, to survive for centuries or even millennia. A post of this kind could have been part of a trackway, a platform, a fence line, or some more modest structure whose purpose is now impossible to determine from a single surviving element. By the time it was recorded, the post had already been damaged by milling, the industrial-scale cutting of peat for fuel that transformed large areas of the Irish midlands and their fringes through the twentieth century. That damage makes any fuller interpretation harder still. What the milling left behind is a fragment of something, inclining quietly into the bog, its original context largely gone.