On the southern side of a shallow valley on the Curragh, a stretch of open Co. Kildare grassland better known for racehorses and military camps, the ground holds a pattern that only becomes legible from the air. A rectangular area roughly 80 metres long and 10 metres wide preserves a series of slight terraces, each defined along its northern and western edges by earthen banks so low, just five centimetres in height, that a walker could step over them without noticing. Faint mounding survives within the terraces themselves. Taken together, these modest irregularities in the turf point to a settlement cluster, a grouping of structures whose occupants chose this sheltered spot at the western end of the valley deliberately, out of the prevailing wind.

The site first came to attention through aerial photography carried out by the Department of Defence in 1999. That kind of oblique or vertical photography has been one of the primary tools for identifying low-lying earthworks across Ireland, since shadows cast at particular times of day, or variations in crop and grass growth above buried features, can reveal outlines invisible at ground level. In the case of this cluster, the valley setting and the careful siting on the southern slope suggest a community that understood the microclimate of the Curragh well, though when that community lived here, and under what conditions, remains unresolved. The earthworks are too slight and too undisturbed to date without further investigation.