Not an unusual thing in itself, except that this particular route is described as a very ancient highway from Munster, crossing over the top of the hill and dividing it into two nearly equal parts, with the southern portion falling in the townland of Ballynascarry and the northern in Glenreagh. The road predates any modern mapping of the area, and its line across the hilltop suggests it was once a significant overland connection between provinces rather than a local track serving nearby farms.

The description comes from the Kilkenny historian William Carrigan, writing in 1905, who noted the route in the second volume of his history of the diocese of Ossory. Carrigan was a meticulous local chronicler, and his observation places this trackway in a tradition of long-distance pre-modern routes that once moved people, livestock, and goods across Ireland before roads were engineered to follow valley floors and serve market towns. Such upland routes were often preferred precisely because they avoided the bogs and dense woodland of lower ground, keeping travellers on firm, visible terrain. Whether this particular road is genuinely ancient in the archaeological sense, meaning prehistoric or early medieval in origin, remains unverified. The evidence available is not sufficient to classify it as an archaeological monument, which means it sits in an uncertain space, historically noted but not formally confirmed.