What is recorded here

Leabuidh Dhiarmuid agus Graine, a bedchamber for lovers in local story, stood as a nine-foot stone box in the Galway dunes when Kilbride measured it in 1868. Three solid flags enclosed the south, west and east sides, leaving the north open like a doorway to the sea. The dunes have since swallowed the chamber whole, erasing the woodcraft and love behind it.

In the sand-dunes on S side of An Trá Mhór. Named by Kilbride (1868, 115-16) as 'Leabuidh Dhiarmuid agus Graine' and placed by him about 36-46m S of Teaghlach Éinne (GA119-120001-). He described it as 'about nine feet [2.75m] long, and enclosed on three sides. The ends face south and north, which is open on that end; the west is formed of one entire flag … the south end is also of one flag; but the east side is formed of two…The horizontal capping flags are wanting.' He gives its width and height as 'three and a half [feet (1.1m)] broad, and as many in height'. No visible surface trace of it survives. Possibly a megalithic tomb. (Westropp 1895, 264-5) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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