Colin pointed out a useful utility called lft in response to a question on IIU. lft looks like a useful alternative traceroute application as it claims to have the ability to identify stateful inspection firewalls and other useful information.
What I found immediately attractive was the -A option which displays the AS numbers of addresses along the path and also the -N which looks up and displays the network names.
e.g.
# lft -S -A www.yahoo.com TTL LFT trace to f1.us.www.vip.ird.yahoo.com (87.248.113.14):80/tcp ... ... 3 [AS35272] lns3.net.imagine.ie (87.232.0.26) 27.3ms 4 [AS35272] ve5.core.net.imagine.ie (87.232.0.129) 9.0ms 5 [AS35272] ge0-0.border1.net.imagine.ie (87.232.0.1) 8.6ms 6 [AS3257] ge-2-0-0-207.dub20.ip.tiscali.net (213.200.67.145) 13.8ms 7 [AS3257] yahoo-overture-gw2.dub20.ip.tiscali.net (213.200.67.202) 13.9ms 8 [AS34010] ge-1-4.bas-b1.ird.yahoo.com (87.248.101.13) 10.9ms 9 [AS34010] [target] f1.us.www.vip.ird.yahoo.com (87.248.113.14):80 12.6ms
and
# lft -S -N www.heanet.ie TTL LFT trace to www.heanet.ie (193.1.219.79):80/tcp ... ... 3 [87-RIPE/IMAGINE-IRL] lns1.net.imagine.ie (87.232.0.24) 24.0ms 4 [87-RIPE/IMAGINE-IRL] ve5.core.net.imagine.ie (87.232.0.129) 22.3ms 5 [87-RIPE/IMAGINE-IRL] ge0-0.border1.net.imagine.ie (87.232.0.1) 60.6ms 6 [RIPE-CBLK/IE-INEX-IPV4-PI-NETBLK1] gige6-1-cr1-cwt.hea.net (193.242.111.16) 8.7ms 7 [RIPE-CBLK/HEANET-EXT] gige6-1-ar1-cwt.hea.net (193.1.195.177) 45.4ms 8 [RIPE-CBLK/HEANET-EXT] blanch-sr1-po1.services.hea.net (193.1.195.139) 25.6ms 9 [RIPE-CBLK/HEANET-LAN] [target] www.heanet.ie (193.1.219.79):80 9.4ms