Not motorways or county routes, but the older kind, the ones that predate maps and sometimes predate memory, whose original purpose has blurred into the landscape itself. At Prospect in County Galway, one such road or trackway has been deemed significant enough to carry a formal monument designation, placing it in the same category of protected site as ringforts, passage tombs, and medieval tower houses.

Trackways of this kind in the Irish midlands and west can range enormously in age and character. Some are post-medieval routes connecting townlands and market towns, their surfaces worn into the earth by centuries of foot and cart traffic. Others are far older, occasionally preserved beneath bogland, where the anaerobic conditions that form peat also happen to be extraordinarily good at keeping timber, brushwood, and even the organic material of ancient road surfaces intact. Without further detail specific to Prospect, it is not possible to say with certainty which type this represents, or when it was in use, but the fact of its classification suggests it retains enough physical presence, or enough documentary or cartographic significance, to be considered part of the archaeological record of the area.