Somewhere in the fields west of Commons church in Tipperkevin, County Kildare, there runs a road that no longer exists. Not lost to redevelopment or realignment, not buried under tarmac, but simply gone, leaving no visible trace on the ground whatsoever.

The only evidence for it comes from an estate map drawn in 1815, on which a surveyor named Longfield annotated a trackway heading westward from just north of the church towards Bawnoge townland. His label is precise and a little melancholy: he called it a "very ancient road, now almost disused". That phrase suggests the road was already a relic by the early nineteenth century, still legible enough to record but fading from practical use. Longfield was noting an absence as much as a presence. What the road originally connected, how old it actually was, and why it fell out of use are questions the map does not answer. The church it passed near, Commons church, still stands as a reference point, but the trackway that once ran beside it has left nothing behind.