The trackway, just over six metres long and around two metres wide, was laid from large, flat-topped sandstone slabs and ran roughly north to south across what would once have been marshy pasture. What makes it quietly strange is not its modest dimensions but what was found on top of it: the material deliberately, it seems, pressed down over the stones to seal them off.

Excavations by Dennehy in 2001 revealed that the trackway had been covered by a deposit associated with a fulacht fia located only thirteen metres to the south. A fulacht fia is a type of prehistoric cooking site, typically consisting of a trough used to heat water by means of fire-heated stones, surrounded by a mound of cracked and fire-reddened stone debris. The sandstones used in the trackway closely resembled those arranged around the trough of the neighbouring fulacht fia, suggesting the two features were constructed from the same source material and probably used together. The working interpretation is that the trackway served as a practical approach route to the cooking site, perhaps across the soft, wet ground. When the fulacht fia went out of use, the path was not simply abandoned; the mound material appears to have been spread over it, effectively closing it. Whether this was incidental infill or something more deliberate is uncertain, but the trackway had been truncated by a drainage gully at some point before excavation, leaving only a fragment of what was once a functional, purposeful route through a wet Kerry landscape.