A togher is an ancient trackway laid across wet or boggy ground, essentially a platform of organic material pressed into the marsh to allow people or animals to cross terrain that would otherwise swallow them. This particular example survived not despite the bog, but because of it; the waterlogged, oxygen-poor conditions that make peat so inhospitable to the living are precisely what preserve the dead and the wooden.

The Cloontamore togher is modest in its dimensions, running roughly twenty metres in length, one and a half metres wide, and sitting at a depth of about eighteen centimetres. It is oriented north-northwest to south-southeast, suggesting it was laid with some deliberate sense of direction across the wetland rather than simply thrown down at random. What makes it archaeologically interesting is its construction method: the trackway is built from longitudinal brushwood rods, each between thirteen and twenty-two millimetres in diameter, laid lengthways along the route. This is a class 2 togher, a classification that refers to this particular technique of using long, parallel rods rather than, say, transverse planks or a woven hurdle surface. The brushwood would have been cut, bundled, and placed with care, the kind of routine infrastructure that ancient communities built and rebuilt as seasonal needs and shifting water levels demanded.