On the Curragh in Co. Kildare, a south-facing slope holds a procession of ancient mounds so modest in scale that they could easily be dismissed as natural undulations in the ground. What makes this cluster of ditch barrows quietly remarkable is not any individual monument but the arrangement as a whole: eleven low earthworks forming a gently curving line roughly 80 metres in length, oriented northwest to southeast across open grassland.

A barrow is a burial mound, typically of prehistoric date, and a ditch barrow is one defined by a surrounding fosse, or shallow ditch, cut into the ground around the base. Here, nine of the mounds form the main linear group, with two further examples sitting as outliers at the northern and southern ends of the alignment. Each mound is small and flat-topped, with basal diameters ranging from roughly 4.9 to 6.2 metres and heights of only 0.1 to 0.2 metres above the surrounding turf. The upper surfaces measure between 2.8 and 3.4 metres across. Faint traces of a fosse about one metre wide encircle all but the most southerly of the group. The spacing between individual mounds is irregular, varying from as little as 2 metres to as much as 20 metres, which gives the line a loose, unplanned quality rather than the precision of a formally laid-out cemetery. The group was identified from aerial photography taken in 1999 by the Department of Defence, which revealed the subtle cropmark signatures that ground-level observation alone would struggle to detect on such low-relief earthworks.