What is recorded here
Dermot and Grania’s Bed is a natural cave cut into a precipice in County Sligo, named on the 1913 OS map. The stone mouth opens like a bedroom forgotten by time, inviting two shadows to lie together beneath the cliff. Grania may have fled there with Dermot, hiding from men and weather while the mountain held them close.
Named ‘Dermot and Grania’s Bed’ on the OS 6-inch map (1913), this is a natural cave in the face of a precipice. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 95)
S. Ó Nualláin, Survey of the megalithic tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989)
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 16 January 2012
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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