Only about fifty metres of this particular stretch remain visible to the eye; the rest has been swallowed by forestry. At its south-eastern end, the trackway meets a stream, still crossed by stepping-stones, a detail that gives a quiet sense of the road as a practical, maintained thing rather than a line on a map.

The road is known in Irish as Bóthar an Corann, or alternatively Bothar na Slieve, and according to Timoney and Timoney, writing in 2001, it is credited to Richard de Burgh, the Red Earl of Ulster, who is said to have built it to connect his castle at Ballymote with County Roscommon. De Burgh was one of the most powerful Anglo-Norman magnates in fourteenth-century Ireland, and the road would have served a straightforwardly strategic purpose, skirting the south-western side of Kesh Corran and running to the west of the Bricklieve Mountains. The full route passed through more than a dozen townlands before reaching the Roscommon border, and a possible link road also ran southward from Greenan, around the southern side of the Bricklieve Mountains, towards Ballinafad. The Meenmore section is one of five separately recorded stretches of the road surviving in County Sligo, each preserving fragments of what was once a continuous route. Where the north-western end of this particular section survives, the original engineering is still faintly legible: a slight scarping of the hillslope on the uphill side, and the remnants of a low bank on the downhill side, the basic form of a road cut into a slope and held in place against erosion.