What is recorded here

Dermot and Granias Bed is a megalthic tomb in County Clare, Ireland. The name suggests two people, perhaps lovers, rivals or parents, but the stones give no answer. They lie flat under the sky like a promise kept or a story forgotten. The bed is empty, yet the naming implies someone once believed they could identify the occupants. That belief is the strange part.

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. Its significance lies in contributing to the understanding of megalithic tomb distribution and construction in the region during the third millennium BCE.

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