The road appears on the second edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1907 under the Irish name Bohernameasa, and at just 2.2 metres wide it is barely broad enough for a single vehicle. Today it functions as an ordinary by-road, unremarkable to anyone passing along it without knowing what the name might imply.

The interest lies in what lies behind that cartographic label. A 1908 work by Power suggested the existence of an ancient road in this part of Tipperary, and there is a reasonable possibility that Bohernameasa represents a surviving stretch of it. The route Power described has not been definitively located on the ground, so this narrow lane occupies an uncertain but intriguing position, either a fragment of something considerably older dressed in modern tarmac, or simply a long-established local road that inherited the name. The word "bóithrín" and its variants in Irish placenames often denote a lane or minor road, and names of this kind sometimes preserve a memory of routes that predate any formal mapping by centuries.