What is recorded here

Dermot and Granias Bed is a megalithic tomb in County Clare, Ireland. Two large stones tilt like a chair waiting for a ghost, while smaller stones scatter around them as if dumped in a hurry. People may have laid dead beneath those stones or marked a boundary nobody remembers. The names sound like a joke told by the land, but the weight of the rocks leaves no room for laughter.

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: 28 December 2011

Portal dolmen; likely dates to the Neolithic period (c. 4000–2500 BCE). Its significance lies in contributing to the understanding of megalithic tomb distribution and construction techniques in western Ireland.

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