What is recorded here
Dermot & Grainnes Bed is a wedge tomb in Fuerty, County Roscommon, Ireland. Six kerbstones, two large facade stones, and two chamber wall stones survive within a low mound measuring about fourteen metres long and eight metres wide. The structure sits in a low-lying landscape where these megalithic fragments remain visible inside the earthwork.
In a low-lying landscape. Six kerbstones on the NW side (L 6.5m) and two large facade stones on the SW side (L 4.5m) survive with two of the N side-wall stones of the chamber. The stones are incorporated into a mound (dims c. 13.9m NE-SW; 7.9m NW-SE; H c. 0.3-0.6m). (Borlase 1897, vol. 1, 198; English, 1969, 2; deValera and O'Nuallain 1972, 38-9)
See the attached view taken from the NE
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).
Portal dolmen; likely dates to the Neolithic period (c. 4000–2500 BCE). Its surviving facade and kerbstones indicate a significant ritual or funerary function in an early communal landscape.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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