Spread across the Curragh in County Kildare, Ireland's largest area of inland short-grass plain, prehistoric burial mounds are not unusual in themselves. What makes this particular example worth pausing over is its form: a stepped barrow, in which a low circular mound sits within a narrow flat shelf, or berm, before the ground drops away to the surrounding surface. The effect is subtle but deliberate, a kind of architectural layering that distinguishes it from a simple earthen heap.

The mound sits near the top of a gently south-facing slope, where it would have been visible across a wide stretch of ground, a consideration that was likely intentional for a monument marking the resting place of the dead. It is circular in plan, with a base diameter of thirteen metres and a gently domed upper surface that measures roughly 11.6 metres east to west and 7.8 metres north to south, dimensions that hint at a slight elongation rather than a perfect circle. Its height ranges between 0.4 and 0.8 metres, low enough to be easily overlooked from a distance yet well-preserved given its age. Around the mound runs the defining feature: a narrow berm, one and a half to two metres wide, a flat terrace that gives the structure its stepped profile. Barrows of this type belong broadly to the Bronze Age tradition of burial monument-building in Ireland, though the Curragh as a landscape has been in near-continuous use for military training and grazing for centuries, which makes the survival of any earthwork here quietly remarkable. The monument was identified and recorded from aerial photography taken by the Department of Defence in 1999.