Not a road in any recent sense, but a carefully laid stone trackway, its edges still clean, its flat slabs still in position, running east to west for at least 34 metres before disappearing beneath a half-metre peat face, continuing for an unknown distance beneath ground that has not yet been cut.

The trackway is 1.5 metres wide, wide enough for a loaded animal or a person moving with purpose, and it is formed of large flat slabs arranged with well-defined edges. This kind of bog road, sometimes called a toghers, was typically built to allow movement through soft, otherwise impassable ground. Peat grows slowly, accumulating over centuries and millennia, and when it preserves something it preserves it well; the very wetness and acidity that makes bog difficult to cross also protects timber, leather, and stone from decay. The stretch exposed at Derrygarrane, on the Iveragh Peninsula in South Kerry, was documented in the 1996 archaeological survey of the peninsula compiled by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan. The survey recorded its dimensions and construction but could not say, given the peat face still concealing the eastern end, where it was ultimately going.

What makes this particular find quietly compelling is how incomplete it remains. The 34 metres on view are not the whole story; the trackway simply runs into uncut bog and stops, at least from the perspective of anyone looking at it. Whoever built it had a destination in mind, and that destination, along with however much more of the road, is still out there beneath the peat on the hillside above Knocklomena.