Aerial imagery reveals the faint but coherent outline of a ring barrow roughly 48 metres in diameter, a scale that places it among the more substantial examples of a funerary monument type common across prehistoric Ireland. A ring barrow typically consists of a low central mound, the burial itself, surrounded by a circular ditch or fosse, an earthen bank, and sometimes a second outer ditch and bank. At Farthingstown, traces of all these concentric elements appear to survive, including a small central mound, an inner fosse, a low bank, a second fosse, and hints of an outer bank beyond that.

What makes the site quietly peculiar is how the modern landscape has absorbed it. A field boundary running along the western side of the monument does not simply cut across the earthwork; it curves outward in a way that suggests it has, at some point, been aligned to follow the arc of the barrow itself. The boundary has effectively borrowed the geometry of a prehistoric burial monument, bending to accommodate something that was already there long before any townland division or agricultural enclosure was ever drawn. This kind of casual continuity, where ancient earthworks survive because later land use unconsciously worked around them, is more common in the Irish midlands than is often appreciated. Whether the monument is genuinely prehistoric or reflects some other enclosure tradition remains cautious territory, and it is formally classified as a possible ring barrow rather than a confirmed one.