Somewhere on the north-western edge of the Little Curragh, within the grounds of Kildare Golf Course, at least a dozen prehistoric burial mounds have been quietly disappearing beneath a tangle of whins and furze for decades. Ring barrows are among the more modest monuments of the Irish Bronze Age, each one typically a low circular earthen bank surrounding a shallow ditch, enclosing a central area where human remains or grave goods were once deposited. The examples here are small even by that standard, with estimated average diameters of roughly six to ten metres and outer banks no more than about ten centimetres high, making them easy to overlook even when the vegetation is not working against you.

Aerial photography has done more for this site than any ground-level survey. A 1970 photograph taken as part of the Cambridge University Committee for Aerial Photography archive shows up to twelve small circular enclosures clustered to the south and south-east of a larger enclosure nearby. A second aerial image, undated and of uncertain origin, apparently shows the features even more clearly. By 1989, a field description noted that the group was already difficult to read on the ground, obscured by tree stumps, furze, and the compounding disturbance of sheep moving through the area. The twelve individual monuments were formally designated, each carrying its own reference number in the national record, but even at the time of recording they were fading back into the landscape. There is also a complicating footnote: some of the circular features may not be prehistoric burial monuments at all, but lunging rings, the small enclosed circles used historically for exercising horses on a lead rein, a use entirely consistent with this part of Kildare and its long association with equestrian activity.

The site sits on a very gentle south-east-facing slope and is now almost completely smothered by whins, the common name in Ireland for gorse. Nothing is clearly visible at ground level any longer, which gives the place a particular quality: a scheduled and catalogued group of monuments that has, in practical terms, ceased to be legible without the overhead view that first revealed it.