What makes this particular example quietly interesting is precisely its ordinariness from the outside: the modern road surface almost certainly covers it, and the bog it once crossed has long since been tamed into passable ground.

The togher is recorded on both the first and second edition six-inch Ordnance Survey maps under the name Kirk's Togher, and the first edition in particular shows clearly what it was doing. Running roughly north-northwest to south-southeast, it bridged a strip of bog between two areas of dry land, a simple but necessary piece of infrastructure in a landscape where wet ground could make short distances impassable. The name Kirk's Togher suggests some association with a family or individual named Kirk, though the notes do not elaborate on who that may have been. At some point, the monument was incorrectly identified as a feature lying to the northwest of its actual position; that feature turned out to be a stream running northeast to southwest, and the confusion likely arose from the difficulty of reading such subtle distinctions in a low-lying, watery landscape.