Dermot & Granias Bed

On a platform in gently sloping moorland on the W slope of Moanour mountain which is at the W end of Slievenamuck mountain. This wedge-tomb is partially buried in the surrounding bog. It consists of a long wedge-shaped gallery (L 5.4m; Wth 1.1m tapering to 0.65m at the backstone), flanked at either side by the remains of an outer wall (De Valera and Ó Nualláin 1982, 95-6). A pair of orthostats stand behind the E end of the gallery (ibid.). Two roofstones lie across the middle of the gallery and a displaced roofstone rests above the orthostats at the W end of the N side (ibid.). A number of displaced stones lie in front of the entrance (ibid.). The structure is incorporated in a roughly circular mound (diam. 8-9m) which rises little above the surface of the bog (ibid.). Monument is quite heavily overgrown with gorse, brambles, ferns and scrub with a rowan tree on the S side of the E end growing on the tomb. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume IV. Counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1982)

Wedge tomb; Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age. Its location on a prominent mountain slope suggests it may have had ritual or territorial significance in the landscape.