What is recorded here

Granias Bed is a portal tomb in County Clare, Ireland, where scrub now strangles most of the stones and leaves only the chamber interior visible. It is not clear whether Dermot or Granis truly rested there, but the name suggests somebody believed the stones marked a body worth remembering. The burial may have belonged to a champion, a king or an ordinary person whose loss struck the village hard enough to build a monument. Either way, the chamber still holds the shape of that belief even though the story has faded.

The surviving remains are as described in de Valera and Ó Nualláin (1961, 52, Cl. 63) except that most of the monument is covered in scrub and only the interior of the chamber is visible. The attached image (CL016-048----_01) was taken in May 1952 and shows the monument to be largely clear of vegetation. The second image (CL016-048----_02) was taken in June 2013. See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume I. County Clare. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1961) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 26 June 2013

A portal dolmen dating to the Neolithic period; its significance lies in representing a rare surviving example of megalithic tomb architecture in the region.

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