Ring-barrows are a form of burial monument common in later prehistoric Ireland, typically consisting of a low circular earthen mound enclosed by a surrounding ditch, known as a fosse. What makes this grouping unusual is less the individual monuments than the sheer density of them, and the strangeness of their setting: not a commanding hillside or an obvious ritual landscape, but a damp meadow that gives nothing away.

The most detailed account of the site comes from archaeologist M. J. O'Kelly, who described it in 1944. O'Kelly noted that all twelve monuments sit in a low-land marsh meadow, with eight of the barrows and both platforms concentrated in a single field, a ninth barrow tucked into the nearest corner of a field to the north, and the tumulus, a larger burial mound, sitting in the nearest corner of the field to the east. A road runs immediately to the west of the whole complex, and a sand-pit lies just beyond it. O'Kelly observed that the barrows are all identical in construction, built from very slight circular mounds enclosed by fosses but with no outer banks, and that their diameters range from roughly 4.5 metres to 11 metres. He also noted, with a certain archaeological candour, that no particular arrangement among them was observable. They are simply there, unevenly sized and apparently unplanned, which in its own way raises more questions than a tidy alignment would.

The site sits in agricultural land, so access will depend on the cooperation of landowners and the condition of the ground, which, given O'Kelly's description of marshy meadow, is likely to be soft underfoot in wetter months. The monuments themselves are subtle; do not expect dramatic earthworks. The mounds are slight and the fosses shallow, meaning that low-angle winter light, when shadows are longer, will give the best chance of reading the outlines from ground level. The road to the west provides a useful orientation point. Anyone with an interest in how prehistoric communities used and marked ordinary landscapes, rather than only elevated or visually dominant ones, will find this cluster genuinely thought-provoking.