What is recorded here

No human body is recorded beneath the slab, yet the chamber still points toward Lough Currane like a forgotten offer. The standing stone nearby leans slightly inward, as if listening for an answer that never came. Henry saw more stones and hut ruins in that field, but time or plough removed them. What remains is a small chamber and one witness stone, holding the shape of a place that once believed it was remembering someone.

National Monument No. 380. This boulder-burial and standing stone are located in gently sloping pasture close to the W shores of Lough Currane. A second standing stone (KE098-034----) occurs c. 167m to SSW. The boulder-burial consists of a flat-topped slab supported on three low stones. The interior of the monument is infilled with field debris, and larger clearance stones abut it externally at E and W. The cover-stone is roughly subrectangular in plan, its longer axis lying ENE-WSW. Its maximum dimensions are 1.8m x 1.5m and it averages .3m thick. The support stones are generally flat-topped and have average dimensions of .7m x .5m and .3m high. In 1988 a single piece of burnt bone was found beneath the cover-stone (NMI 1988:190). Located 13.4m ENE of the boulder-burial is a stout pillar (KE098-030002-) of regular elevation, marked 'Gallaun' on the OS maps. Its NE side displays a sharp inturn 1.45m up from its base, where it measures 1.05m x .8m; ENE-WSW. The stone stands 2.4m high and a number of packing stones are exposed at its base (Ó Nualláin 1978, 98). Henry noted two small 'dolmens' to the W of the standing stone, where she also recorded the ruins of one or two huts and related field boundaries (1957, 132). No visible trace survives of this second possible boulder-burial, nor of the other features. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 378. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

Boulder-burial in An Bhinn Bhán is a Bronze Age funerary monument, typically associated with single interments beneath a large capstone. Its presence contributes to the understanding of early burial practices in the region.

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.