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Dermot and Granias Bed is a wedge tomb on a western ridge in County Clare, named for the lovers on maps drawn in 1840 and 1920. Its rectangular chamber holds two side-stones and one broad roofstone, now buried beneath a six-metre cairn of field stones and grass. The hidden depth suggests people kept returning to mark, protect or remember the place long after its first builders left it behind.

At the W edge of a terrace, on the W-facing slope of a N-S ridge in pasture. Named ‘Dermot and Grania’s Bed’ on the 1840 and 1920 OS 6-inch maps. A rectangular chamber (c. 2m E-W; c. 1.45m N-S; max. H 1.7m), of which only the SW end is visible, consists of two side-stones and a single roofstone (2.5m E-W; c. 2.15m; T 0.3-0.4m). It is obscured by an overgrown cairn augmented with field stones (diam. c. 6m; max. H 1.9m). (Borlase 1897, vol. 1, 81, No. 3; Westropp 1900-02, 90; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1961, 64) Compiled by Michael Moore Date of upload: 17 November 2025 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) Date of upload: 30 December 2011

A rectangular passage tomb, likely dating to the Neolithic period. Its survival and mapped history indicate its local significance as a prehistoric monument, though its broader archaeological context remains poorly documented.

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