Somewhere on the northwestern edge of the Little Curragh, a cluster of ancient burial mounds lies almost entirely invisible beneath a tangle of whin bushes on a golf course fairway. Ring barrows are among the more modest expressions of prehistoric funerary practice, each one typically a low circular earthen mound enclosed by a shallow ditch, known as a fosse, and a slight outer bank. What makes this particular group quietly remarkable is not their grandeur but rather how thoroughly they have slipped from view.

Aerial photography first brought the site into focus. A 1970 photograph, catalogued as CUCAP BDU 21, revealed up to twelve small circular enclosures arranged to the south and southeast of a larger enclosure nearby. A second photograph, of uncertain date and attribution, showed the features even more clearly from the air. When investigators examined the site on the ground in 1989, the picture was considerably less legible. They recorded at least twelve small ringbarrows, averaging somewhere between six and ten metres in diameter, each defined by a fosse no more than ten centimetres deep and an outer bank of roughly the same height. Even then, tree and furze stumps and disturbance from sheep made them difficult to read. Since that assessment, the whins have continued to advance, and the twelve monuments, individually recorded and designated, are no longer discernible at ground level by an ordinary visitor.

There is an additional layer of uncertainty worth noting. Some of the circular features may not be burial monuments at all but lunging rings, the small circular enclosures used historically for exercising horses on a long rein, which would be entirely in keeping with the Curragh's long association with equestrian activity. The two forms are similar enough in outline, particularly when overgrown and eroded, that distinguishing between them without excavation remains genuinely difficult. It is a reminder that a landscape can hold several different histories simultaneously, each one quietly contesting the other.