There is no earthwork to follow, no hollow way worn into the soil, no surviving hedge-line to hint at what was once here. The roads exist now only in records and in the residual geometry of aerial photography.

In 1840, the antiquarian John O'Donovan recorded the place in the Ordnance Survey Namebooks, noting that it was known as Bally-na-scullog and contained the traces of ancient fences forming an enclosure, along with two road lines: one running through the western side of the townland from its south-western corner, the other cutting north-eastward through the centre. The name Bally-na-scullog suggests a settlement of some kind, with "bally" deriving from the Irish "baile", meaning a townland or homestead. By the time aerial photographs were taken in 1974 as part of a Geological Survey of Ireland survey, the roads were still legible from above, their presence registered in slight differences in soil colour or crop growth. Since then, the levelling of old field boundaries and the creation of new ones have completed the erasure at ground level.

What remains is a particular kind of historical trace, one that exists only in documents and photographs rather than in the landscape itself. The undulating pasture at Higginstown gives no indication of what O'Donovan observed, or of the two routes that once organised movement through this piece of Tipperary ground. The 1974 aerial photographs represent, in effect, the last moment at which the roads could still be read without excavation.