Somewhere on the Curragh, the great open plain of Co. Kildare long associated with horse racing and military training, a small earthwork sits partly disfigured by the trenches of soldiers who never knew, or perhaps never cared, what lay beneath their spades. The feature is a rath, a type of ringfort common across early medieval Ireland, typically comprising a raised interior platform enclosed by a bank and ditch. This particular example is modest in scale, the raised interior reaching about a metre in height and the enclosing ditch and berm measuring roughly fifteen metres across, with traces of a possible outer bank bringing the overall diameter to around twenty-two metres.

What lifts it out of the ordinary is what turned up when military earthworks cut through the western side of the site. Seán P. O'Riordáin, writing in 1950, noted that an L-shaped cutting made west of the centre produced bone fragments identified as human, specifically portions of the femora, the large thigh bone, belonging to at least two individuals. O'Riordáin recorded this as Site F, and included a scaled cross-section of the feature in his publication. Whether the remains were deliberately deposited, incidental to some other activity, or connected to the original construction or use of the rath cannot be said with certainty from what survives in the record. Ringforts were primarily enclosed farmsteads in early medieval Ireland, but human bone has turned up in and around such sites often enough to suggest that boundaries between the domestic and the funerary were sometimes blurry. The military disturbance at the west and north of this site means that whatever context once surrounded those bones is likely gone.