But the hollow-way running south of the tower house at Lisronagh, County Tipperary, carries a quiet weight. It is one of the more legible traces of a medieval settlement that once organised itself around this corner of the Tipperary landscape, and it survives largely because the ground itself remembers where feet and wheels once passed.

A hollow-way is exactly what the name suggests: a route worn down over generations of use until it sits below the level of the surrounding land, its base flattened by repeated traffic. The Lisronagh example, about six metres wide, runs immediately east of a raised platform that formed part of the wider medieval complex. It was recorded by Lyons in 1937, who identified it as part of a cluster of earthworks belonging to the medieval settlement of Lisronagh, and traced its course running roughly southward from the tower house. The roadway does not fade out gradually in the way that abandoned routes sometimes do. Instead it meets a hard edge: a new road constructed in 1939, running east to west along the southern boundary of what was once a single large field, cuts directly across its path. That 1939 road effectively erased whatever continuation once existed, leaving the hollow-way truncated and its destination a matter of inference rather than evidence.