It extends roughly 550 metres through overgrown ground, running north to south, seven to nine metres wide, flanked on its western side by an earthen scarp and a low bank of earth and stone. It does not connect two significant places in any obvious way. By the time the Ordnance Survey captured it on their 1907 six-inch map, it was already rendered as little more than a linear feature, a ghostly outline on paper rather than a functioning route.

Local memory, recorded in the 1940s, held that this was a famine road, one that was never finished. During the Great Famine of the 1840s, public works schemes put starving people to labour on roads and drainage projects, often in locations where the practical value of the work was secondary to the provision of wages. Many such roads were abandoned mid-construction when the schemes were wound down or funding collapsed, and some were never incorporated into the wider road network at all. This road in Aghavilla sits parallel to the present R204 between Carrigallen and Ballinamore, and from its northern end a minor road does continue towards Newtown Gore, suggesting that this stretch may once have been intended as part of that route. Whether it was always meant to connect there, or whether the alignment was simply a coincidence of terrain, is not recorded. Two further sections of what appears to be the same road continue southward, hinting at a more ambitious original plan.