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Dermot & Granias Bed

Court tomb

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Dermot & Granias Bed is a court tomb in County Mayo, Ireland, where massive stones still mark an ancient chamber. People may have gathered there to bury the dead, feed the living or witness the sky, but the chamber no longer speaks its own name. What remains is a threshold: large enough to enter, quiet enough to forget, and old enough to make forgetting natural.
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; likely dates to the Neolithic period. Its significance lies in contributing to the understanding of megalithic tomb distribution and construction in western Ireland.

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