“Swindleroads are an old-fashioned tool of scoundrels and highwaymen. A straightforward bit of geographical trickery in which one walks down one end of a lane and comes out the other end in a different location, sometimes miles away, where a band of blackguards would be waiting to rob you. Most Swindleroads have been blocked off or signposted now, but back in the Age of Thieves, there was a whole plague of them all over the Free State.