At Dromtine in County Kerry, an old track once threaded its way through boggy ground, climbed a low hill, and arrived at a rath, the type of earthen, roughly circular enclosure that served as a farmstead or dwelling place during the early medieval period in Ireland. Today, nothing of that track is visible at ground level.

The track was recorded by Barrington in 1976, who described its route in enough detail to suggest it was still at least partly traceable at that point, or that older local knowledge of it survived. The suspicion is that it was absorbed by a modern road which now runs past a cashel in the same area, a cashel being a stone-walled enclosure broadly equivalent in function to an earthen rath. Whether the track and the cashel were in use at the same time is not something the evidence resolves. The modern road itself has not been precisely dated, though it is considered likely to have been constructed after 1700, meaning the original track could be considerably older, perhaps associated with the medieval or early medieval activity that the nearby enclosures suggest.