What is recorded here
Granias Bed and Dermots chamber mark a wedge tomb in County Clare where ancient hands tilted stone to catch the sky. The names suggest a family or a fixture, yet the chamber remains empty except for wind and the memory of burial. What is clear is that the place still belongs to the living because it is large enough to enter, strange enough to remember, and old enough to make modern life feel brief.
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 western Ireland.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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