Two were large and oblong, one small and circular, and all three carried the same local name: the Giants' Graves. By August 2022, they were gone, levelled into the surrounding ground without any public notice or ceremony, their presence confirmed only by aerial photography taken less than a decade earlier.

The earliest written record of the mounds comes from Canon William Carrigan, whose early twentieth-century account of the area noted the three earthworks sitting on the hillside and recorded the folk name attached to them. That name, the Giants' Graves, belongs to a long tradition of attributing prehistoric burial monuments to a race of superhuman ancestors; it tells us that local people recognised these as something ancient and out of the ordinary, even if the precise nature of the mounds was never formally investigated. Killanin and Duignan picked up Carrigan's description for the first edition of the Shell Guide to Ireland in 1962, listing them under the entry for Ballyragget, roughly six kilometres to the south in Co. Kilkenny. Curiously, that reference was dropped entirely from the revised edition of the same guide published in 1967, leaving the mounds without even that modest foothold in print.

Orthoimagery captured between 2011 and 2013 showed all three earthworks still clearly present on the slope. Comparative imagery from August 2022 shows flat ground where they once stood. Whatever these mounds were, whether prehistoric burial cairns, later medieval earthworks, or something else entirely, the question can no longer be answered in the field. They join a long and quiet list of things that were documented just in time to record their disappearance.