Somewhere beneath the gorse and scrub of a golf course on the north-western edge of the Little Curragh, at least a dozen ancient burial mounds are slowly disappearing. Ring barrows, a form of low circular earthwork typically dating to the Bronze Age, consist of a central mound or flat area enclosed by a shallow ditch and a low outer bank. The examples here are modest by any measure, averaging perhaps six to ten metres across, with banks no higher than ten centimetres and ditches barely registering at ground level. They are not monuments that announce themselves.

The group first came to wider attention through aerial photography. A 1970 photograph from the Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photography shows up to twelve small circular enclosures clustered to the south and south-east of a larger adjacent enclosure. A second aerial photograph, undated and possibly from the Geological Survey of Ireland, shows the features still more clearly. By 1989, when the site was formally described, surveyors on the ground found the barrows difficult to read, obscured by tree and furze stumps and disturbed by sheep. Even then they were faint, defined by a very shallow fosse, which is simply a ditch or trench forming part of the enclosure boundary, and a barely perceptible earthen bank. Since that visit, whins have closed in further, and the twelve designated monuments are no longer visible at ground level at all. There is an additional complication: some of the circular features may not be burial monuments in any conventional sense, but rather lunging rings, circular enclosures used historically for exercising horses on a long rein, which would be entirely appropriate given the Curragh's long association with bloodstock and racing.