It was not lost so much as buried, swallowed gradually by the same accumulating peat that preserved it, and it only came to light when a drain cut between two peat-workings near Bray on the Iveragh Peninsula happened to slice through it at exactly the right depth.

What the drain exposed is a single layer of stone slabs, roughly 1.2 metres wide, running east to west. The trackway is somewhat disturbed, which is unsurprising given that peat-cutting is a physical and ongoing process, but enough survives to give a clear sense of its original form. These bog roads, sometimes called toghers, were a practical solution to the problem of moving people, animals, or goods across waterlogged ground; a firm surface of timber or stone laid directly onto soft terrain. The dating here is particularly striking. Phragmites peat, the kind produced by the common reed in wetland environments, taken from the same level as the slabs, returned a radiocarbon date of 2920 plus or minus 80 years before present. That places the trackway in the late Bronze Age, somewhere in the region of the first millennium BC, a period when this part of south Kerry was evidently organised enough to warrant engineered routes through difficult ground.

The site sits approximately fifteen metres south-east of another recorded monument in the same area, suggesting the landscape around Bray was considerably more trafficked in prehistory than its current bog surface implies. The trackway itself is not visible in any conventional sense; it exists in section, revealed by the drain rather than standing proud of the ground. Its significance lies less in what you can see than in what its presence tells you about the people who built it, moving purposefully through a wet world that has since reclaimed almost every trace of them.