About 400 metres of it survive, running northwest to southeast and wide enough, at around five and a half metres, for two carts to have passed one another with ease. What makes it legible today are the boulders that line each side, a kerbing of large limestone blocks interspersed with some granite, holding the ghost of a carriageway in place long after the surface itself has gone.

The road peters out at both ends, swallowed by time and the encroaching landscape, but its alignment and location suggest it may be the remnant of the old overland route between Oranmore and Galway city. That corridor, connecting the town on the bay to the medieval port and market of Galway, would have been one of the more travelled approaches into the city from the southeast. The mixed use of limestone and granite in the kerbing is quietly telling; limestone is the dominant local material across this part of County Galway, while the presence of granite points to stone being gathered or reused from more than one source. Kerbed roads of this kind, where large stones define the edges of a prepared surface, are a recurring feature of pre-modern Irish road-building, providing lateral stability on ground that might otherwise shift or flood.