It sits in reclaimed pasture east of a small watercourse in Ballinstona North, and the only reason it is known to exist at all is a single aerial photograph taken on 5 January 2003. What the photograph revealed was a circular cropmark, the kind of faint discolouration in growing vegetation that betrays something buried or disturbed beneath the soil. In this case, the suspicion is that it is a barrow, a prehistoric burial mound, though the ground has yet to confirm it.

A barrow is, at its simplest, a raised earthen mound placed over a burial, a form of monument used across Ireland and Britain from the Neolithic period through the Bronze Age. They range from modest humps in a field to substantial, carefully constructed structures with kerb stones and internal chambers. The Ballinstona North example is one of three possible barrows identified in the immediate area, recorded together in the Sites and Monuments Record under the references LI039-159 through 161. The site was compiled by Martin Fitzpatrick and uploaded to the national record in May 2021. Its existence rests on aerial photograph ASIAP (346) 12 and subsequent orthoimages, including an Ordnance Survey Ireland photograph taken sometime between 2005 and 2012 and a Google Earth image from 14 September 2019, both of which show at least a faint outline of the circular form.

On the ground today, there is likely nothing obvious to see. The pasture has been reclaimed and the landscape is unremarkable at eye level. The townland boundary with Ballyania, marked by the watercourse to the west, provides a useful orientation point if you are trying to locate the general area on a map, but the monument itself is the kind of thing that only becomes legible when conditions are right, during a dry summer when crop stress reveals the differential moisture retention of disturbed subsoil, or from a height where the circular outline registers against the surrounding field. The three candidate barrows in this cluster have not been excavated, and their character, date, and even their status as barrows at all remain unconfirmed.