What is recorded here
Dermot & Granias Bed is a wedge tomb in County Clare, Ireland, where ancient stones still lean against the sky. People may have laid their dead beneath those broad rocks, trusting the earth to keep what life could no longer carry. The name suggests a bed, as if death itself had become a room large enough for two.
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: 30 December 2011
Portal dolmen; dates to the Neolithic period, approximately 3500–2500 BCE. It is significant as part of Ireland's megalithic tradition, reflecting early communal burial practices and stone construction techniques.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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