The Irish name Bóthar na bhFian, meaning roughly the Road of the Fianna, invokes the legendary warrior band of Irish mythology, and while the name alone might be dismissed as romantic local tradition, the physical remains beneath and around it have given archaeologists reason to pay closer attention. The trackway runs northeast to southwest for approximately 170 metres, and when examined during routine monitoring work, it struck investigators as reminiscent of a cursus, a type of Neolithic monument consisting of a long, defined linear corridor, often associated with ceremonial or ritual use rather than ordinary travel.

The road appears on the 1840 edition of the Ordnance Survey Ireland six-inch map as an active roadway, though it was later diverted to the west; by the time of the Cassini edition, the original line was already being treated as a historic feature, annotated with its evocative Irish name. The surrounding landscape adds to its interest. A ringfort, a circular enclosure typically dating from the early medieval period and used as a defended farmstead, sits roughly 40 metres to the west. Monitoring carried out under licence 02E0112 during house groundworks in the area led to the identification of an unrecorded standing stone just 5 metres west of the trackway's western edge. The stone is almost square in section and stands 0.6 metres high, a modest but notable presence that had gone unregistered before Collins noted it in 2004. The clustering of these features, a named road of possible ceremonial character, a ringfort, and a standing stone, suggests a landscape that was meaningful to its inhabitants across several different periods.

The trackway is visible as a linear cropmark on satellite imagery, which is often the clearest way to appreciate its full extent before visiting. It lies in upland pasture just north of the townland boundary with Ballinlyna, around 135 metres northwest of a forestry plantation, which serves as a useful landmark when orientating yourself on the ground. The surrounding land is agricultural and relatively open, so much of what is recorded here is subtle rather than immediately dramatic; the standing stone in particular is low and easy to overlook. Access to the immediate area should be confirmed with landowners, as is standard with sites of this kind in private farmland.