What is recorded here

Dermot & Granias Bed is a small wedge tomb in County Galway pastureland, overlooking Ballynakill Lough. Its chamber measures about two metres long, narrows from one and a half to nearly two metres wide, and slopes downward from west to east beneath a roofstone and low mound. The name suggests two people, perhaps lovers, rivals or ancestors, but the stones give no answer. They tilt slightly into the earth like a sentence unfinished, waiting for someone to lean close and listen for the shape of what is missing.

In gently rolling pastureland, overlooking Ballynakill Lough some 400m to the N. This tomb consists of a small wedge-shaped chamber (L 2m; Wth c. 1.8m at SW narrowing to 1.4m at NE), aligned NE-SW, decreasing in height from W to E. The chamber, closed at SW by a single slab, is covered by a roofstone. Outer-walling survives to the S, and especially around the NE end. It is incorporated in a small mound which rises almost to roof height. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 300; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 23-4) 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: 19 August 2019

Wedge tomb, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BCE). Its alignment and form are typical of Irish wedge tombs, reflecting regional funerary practices and landscape orientation traditions.

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