Somewhere between a golf fairway and a thicket of whins on the Kildare Golf Course, at the north-western edge of the Little Curragh, a cluster of prehistoric burial mounds has been quietly disappearing for decades. Ring barrows are among the more modest of Ireland's ancient funerary monuments, each consisting of a low central mound or flat area enclosed by a shallow ditch, known as a fosse, and a low outer earthen bank. The ones here are particularly unassuming: average diameters of roughly six to ten metres, banks no more than ten centimetres high, and fosses barely half that in depth. At ground level today, the whins have won.

Aerial photography has done most of the work in recording this group. A 1970 photograph, catalogued as CUCAP BDU 21, revealed up to twelve small circular enclosures clustered to the south and south-east of a larger enclosure nearby. A second aerial image, possibly from the Geological Survey of Ireland though undated and unattributed, showed the features even more clearly. By 1989, a field description noted at least twelve ringbarrows present, but already difficult to read on the ground because of tree and furze stumps and grazing pressure from sheep. Since then, the site has become almost completely overgrown, and the twelve individually designated monuments are no longer visible at surface level. There is an additional complication: some of what appear to be barrows may actually be lunging rings, circular enclosures used historically for exercising horses on a long rein, which would make sense given the Curragh's long association with equestrian activity. Whether prehistoric burial monuments or equestrian infrastructure, or some mixture of both, the distinction is no longer easy to make from the surface.