[3][4][5] Breeny More Stone Circle is situated 1 km (0.62 mi) southeast of Kealkill, overlooking Bantry Bay to the west.

[6][7][8] Boulder burials of this type are believed to date from the middle Bronze Age, i.e. 1500–1000 BC.

[9] The toponym is from the Irish brúine móra, "great dwellings of the fairies.

[12][13] A "boulder burial" is a single large boulder sitting on three or four support stones; the term was coined by Seán Ó Nualláin in the 1970s.

They are generally found in the southwest, and associated with standing stones and stone circles; some dispute that there were ever burial sites, as no human remains have ever been recovered.