What is recorded here

Granias Bed and Dermot and Granias Bed are two names for one Mayo court tomb, a long chamber where ancient hands stacked stone before written memory began. The duplication suggests the place was so familiar it needed no description, only recognition.

See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume II. County Mayo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1964) Date of upload: 3 January 2012

Portal dolmen; dates to the Neolithic period, approximately 3500–2500 BCE. This tomb type is significant as it represents an early form of megalithic monument associated with communal burial practices and early agricultural societies in Ireland.

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