What is recorded here

Dermot and Granias Bed in County Donegal is a ghost chamber where two parallel stones still face each other across a narrow gap. People once took flags and large blocks from the site for building, leaving behind a shape that no longer explains itself. What slept there, or who loved there, has gone quiet. The stones remain like a sentence broken in half, waiting for someone to finish it.

This feature was first shown on the 1847-9 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It is represented by two set stones. These are 1.3m apart, parallel to each other and aligned NNW-SSE. The eastern stone is 1.1m long, 0.15m thick and 0.45m high. The western is 0.5m long, 0.2m thick and 0.6m high. Fagan (1845-8), who saw the site in 1845, claimed that these stones were the remains of an 'ancient sepulture' of the type commonly called 'Dermot and Grania's Bed' and that flags and large blocks of stone had been removed from the site within local memory for building purposes. Although the two stones here may be the remains of some form of megalithic structure, the nature of any such is now unclear. Fagan 1845-8, book 3, 19; OS Revision Name Book, sheet 25 (1847-9), 12; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 49, 178; SMR 1987, 25:13; RMP 1995, 25:13. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008

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