The word itself is the giveaway. A togher is a type of ancient road or trackway built across boggy or waterlogged ground, typically constructed from timber, brushwood, or other laid material to provide a stable passage where none could otherwise exist. The fact that a building at a crossroads inherited the name suggests the original feature was significant enough to anchor local memory long after the physical road had disappeared.

Llewelyn Price, writing in 1946, recorded that the name once referred to a road running east to west across the bog here, identified on A. R. Nevill's map as Derry Bogg, the boggy ground lying between the townlands of Killaveny and Lugduff. The first-edition six-inch Ordnance Survey map offers a tantalising clue: roughly 130 metres west of the crossroads house, a stretch of road approximately 130 metres long is marked with a dashed line rather than the solid line used for ordinary roads. That cartographic distinction may indicate a section of different or unusual construction, quite possibly the togher itself. By the time the 1907 revision was published in 1909, a railway line had been driven north to south through this same area of boggy marshland. The railway almost certainly disturbed or destroyed whatever remained of the original trackway, and with it went much of the physical evidence for a road that had once served as a practical crossing over difficult terrain.