Somewhere on the north-western edge of the Little Curragh, within the grounds of Kildare Golf Course, a cluster of ancient burial mounds has spent decades quietly disappearing beneath gorse and scrub. Ring barrows are among the more modest expressions of prehistoric funerary tradition: low circular earthworks, each typically consisting of a shallow ditch, known as a fosse, enclosing a central mound, with a low bank thrown up on the outer edge. The examples here are particularly unassuming, with estimated average diameters of between six and ten metres, fosses barely five to ten centimetres deep, and outer banks rising no more than ten centimetres from the surrounding ground. At that scale, they were never going to be easy to find.

Aerial photography has done more to establish their existence than anything visible at ground level. A 1970 photograph taken as part of the Cambridge University Committee for Aerial Photography survey, reference CUCAP BDU 21, shows up to twelve small circular enclosures arranged to the south and south-east of a larger enclosure nearby. A second aerial image, undated and possibly from the Geological Survey of Ireland, captured the same features with even greater clarity. By 1989, a field survey described the group as at least twelve small ring barrows, though they were already difficult to read on the ground because of tree and furze stumps and disturbance caused by grazing sheep. Since then, the site has become almost completely overgrown with whins, the dense prickly shrub that colonises neglected ground across the Irish midlands, and the individual monuments are no longer clearly visible at surface level. There is also an acknowledged uncertainty about what some of these circular marks actually represent: a number may be lunging rings, circular enclosures used for exercising horses on a long rein, which would be entirely consistent with the Curragh's long association with equestrian activity rather than with prehistory.