It is narrow, just over three metres wide, and flanked by stone walls standing about ninety centimetres high and half a metre thick. That combination of dimensions speaks to a very different era of movement through this landscape, one calibrated to carts and livestock rather than motor vehicles.

A similar disused roadway lies to the north of this one, running northeast towards Glengarriff, and local tradition has long called it "Cromwell's Road". The name is common across Ireland and usually attaches itself to old routeways in areas that saw the movement of Cromwellian forces during the 1650s campaign of conquest, though such attributions are often more folk memory than verified military history. Whether or not either of these tracks genuinely dates to that period, the association suggests that people in the Lackavane area have long sensed something old and purposeful about these corridors through the foothills. The walled construction of the Lackavane road, with its carefully maintained boundaries, points to a route that was once actively managed and probably significant for local movement between communities on either side of the mountain terrain.