It is only 44 metres long, and at its narrowest end barely two metres wide, yet its proportions and the care of its construction are still legible in the soil.

The trackway at Cloghaready runs on a slight northeast to southwest curve, raised a little above the surrounding ground and flat-topped, in the manner of a hollow way, which is the term for a sunken or embanked route worn or built between regular points of movement. On either side it is flanked by a low earthen scarp, roughly 35 centimetres high, and a shallow flat-bottomed fosse, a type of ditch used here not for defence but to define and drain the route. The road widens noticeably towards its southwestern end, reaching about eight metres across, before narrowing to two metres at the northeast. What gives the site its particular interest is its relationship to the landscape around it: the trackway begins about eight metres from the entrance of one moated site and runs between two others positioned to the northwest and southeast. A moated site, in the Irish medieval context, is typically a raised platform surrounded by a water-filled or earthen ditch, associated with rural settlement and farming activity from roughly the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The southwestern end of the trackway is clearly finished, defined by a squared-off scarp, while the northeastern terminus is more disturbed and irregular, suggesting the route may once have continued further in that direction before later activity obscured or removed it.