What is recorded here

Dermot & Grainia Bed is a portal tomb in County Leitrim, Ireland, where broken limestone slabs still frame a chamber facing the sun. It sits on a gentle slope near Lough Scur, reachable by a short path from a roadside carpark. The name suggests love, but the stones suggest something older: a place where people once laid the dead beneath a roof large enough to stand under.

Located in pasture on a gentle NW-facing slope, c. 250m S of Lough Scur. Limestone slabs form a S-facing chamber (dims c. 4.6m x c. 3.75m; H 1.65m) consisting of two portal-stones, two collapsed sidestones, a collapsed backstone and a large roofstone, now broken into four pieces. Two slabs 6m to the N may be the remains of a second chamber. The tomb is now surrounded by a concrete and stone path and it is accessible from a small carpark at a roadside c. 40m to the SW. (Borlase 1897, vol. 1, 194; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 84-5) See the attached view from SW _1 The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

Portal dolmen; likely constructed during the Early to Middle Bronze Age. Its significance lies in its typical megalithic construction and orientation, reflecting ritual practices and social organization of early farming communities in the region.

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