A road named after funerals tends to carry a particular weight, and Boithrín na Socraithe, which translates roughly from the Irish as "the lane of the funerals", earns that name honestly. This sunken trackway crosses the Comeragh Mountains in County Waterford, climbing from around 320 metres above sea level in Carrigeen to a gap in the ridge at roughly 460 metres before descending again through Graigavalla. Its purpose was practical and communal: to link the western and eastern sides of Rathgormuck parish, which the Comeraghs effectively split in two. When people on one side needed to reach the parish church on the other, this was the way they went, including, evidently, those accompanying the dead.

The eastern portion of the route, running from the pass known as Barnavelavallagh, was recorded on a Grand Jury map of County Waterford dated 1818, now held in the National Library of Ireland. Grand Jury maps were produced under the old county administration system and often captured infrastructure that formal surveys overlooked or deemed too minor to document elsewhere. The road's full length runs to approximately 3.5 kilometres, and at one time its eastern end descended all the way down to the lowland road network and on to Rathgormuck church. That lower connection has since been lost, but much of the mountain crossing survives.

For most of its length the trackway is still legible on the ground, visible as a grass and heather-covered sunken channel, roughly four to eight metres wide and sunk between twenty and fifty centimetres below the surrounding surface, often edged with low earthen and stone banks. The exception is the stretch just east of the summit in Graigavalla, where the slope is severe enough that the line becomes impossible to trace. Elsewhere, the very features that mark it out also complicate it: in many places the old road surface has become a drain, since the exposed channel naturally collects rainwater, and the gradient carries it downhill. What began as a route across the mountains has been quietly repurposed by weather and time into something else entirely.