What emerged from the peat at Inchagreenoge was a togher, the Irish term for a wooden trackway built across wet or marshy ground, and this one had been waiting, undisturbed, for a very long time.

The site was excavated by archaeologist Kate Taylor in 2002, under the reference 02E0899, as part of a broader programme of archaeological investigation accompanying Bord Gáis Éireann's Pipeline to the West. The trackway lay on the western edge of a low-lying area of bog, at the base of a steep hill, a position that makes practical sense: anyone descending that slope and needing to cross wet ground would have required some kind of solid footing. The construction was modest but considered. Large timbers formed the base, smaller branches filled it out, and three worked stakes, shaped rather than simply gathered, were driven into the ground nearby to help support the structure. Most intriguingly, preserved grass was found beneath the timbers, and the excavation report notes it may have been deliberately laid as part of the construction process, perhaps to create a stable surface before the heavier material was placed on top. Among the finds recovered from this small structure were a handful of animal bones and a single sherd of prehistoric pottery, the only piece of prehistoric ceramic recovered from the entire pipeline site.

The trackway is no longer visible; like most features uncovered during pipeline surveys, it was recorded, sampled, and the construction work continued over it. What survives is the archaeological record, compiled by Denis Power and uploaded to excavations.ie in August 2012. For anyone curious about the broader landscape, the area around Inchagreenoge sits in the kind of quietly complex bogland terrain that conceals centuries of activity beneath its surface. Tophers of this kind were once common across Ireland's midlands and western counties, and while this example may have been modest in scale, the grass laid carefully beneath its timbers suggests that whoever built it was thinking not just about crossing the bog, but about doing it properly.