That designation alone suggests something older and more deliberate than a farm track worn smooth by cattle, though exactly what kind of route this is, and how far back it reaches, remains to be fully documented in the public record.

Trackways and ancient roads in Ireland range considerably in age and character. Some are early medieval routeways connecting ring forts and ecclesiastical sites; others are remnants of pre-Famine infrastructure, estate roads, or even Bronze Age ridgeways following natural contours of the land. A small number are togher, the Irish term for a timber-and-brushwood causeway laid across boggy ground, which can be carbon-dated with considerable precision when the timbers survive. Without further detail specific to Knockroe, it is not yet possible to say which category this particular feature belongs to, but the fact of its classification as a monument places it in the company of sites considered significant enough to warrant formal protection.