That distinction alone sets it apart from the ordinary network of lanes and boreens that cross the county. Ancient roads are among the more quietly remarkable categories of monument in the Irish landscape, often overlooked precisely because they look, at first glance, like nothing more than a worn path or a slight depression in the ground.

Trackways and roads in Ireland range from prehistoric routeways to early medieval roads, and their survival in the archaeological record usually depends on either their construction in durable materials or their preservation beneath bogland. Some were built as raised causeways of timber and brushwood across wet ground, a type of structure that can survive for thousands of years when waterlogged peat keeps the organic material from decaying. Others were simple beaten surfaces, their presence detectable only through careful survey. Without further detail available for this particular site, it is not possible to say which type of construction is involved at Ellistronparks, or to assign it a period. What can be said is that the townland name itself, with its anglicised form likely concealing an older Irish placename, sits within a part of Mayo that has been continuously inhabited and traversed for a very long time.