An earthwork sits here, recorded and classified, its presence noted on the archaeological map of the country as a monument worth marking. Beyond that, the details remain sparse.

Farravaun is a small townland in Connacht, and earthworks of this kind can mean many things depending on their age and form. They might be the eroded remains of a ringfort, the circular enclosure that was the standard farmstead of early medieval Ireland, occupied roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. They might be something older still, a burial mound or a field boundary from the Bronze Age, or something later, a collapsed structure from the post-medieval period when the landscape of Connacht was reorganised under plantation and clearance. Without further detail, the earthwork at Farravaun sits in that category of places that are known to exist, acknowledged as significant, and not yet fully explained.