What is recorded here

Dermot & Granias Bed is a portal tomb on Galway limestone cragland, its tall stones and heavy roof still standing inside a long cairn. It belongs to the old megalithic tradition when people built chambers large enough to walk through and bury their dead beneath the sky. The name suggests a local story about Dermot and Grania, but the stones themselves record a newer act of imagination layered on ancient craft.

On a belt of flat limestone cragland, some 700m NE of a wedge-tomb (GA122-019----). This tomb consists of a cairn L 22m; Wth c. 9m), aligned NNE-SSW, incorporating towards its N end a well-preserved chamber formed of two tall portal-stones, two narrow sidestones and a large backstone; the whole is covered by a large roofstone. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 300; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 20-1; Weir 1980, 149) 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). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 16 August 2019

A Neolithic passage tomb, dating to approximately 3000–2500 BCE, associated with early megalithic funerary practices in the region. Its alignment and proximity to another wedge tomb suggest it is part of a broader ceremonial landscape.

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