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Dermot & Granias Bed

Wedge tomb

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Dermot & Granias Bed is a wedge tomb in County Mayo, Ireland, where ancient stones still lean across the land like a forgotten chair. People may have laid their dead beneath its tilted slab or simply sat beside it when storms rolled in from the Atlantic. The name suggests two figures, perhaps lovers, rivals or children, yet no clear story survives to prove it. That vacancy makes the tomb larger, not smaller, because imagination has room to enter.
See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume II. County Mayo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1964) Date of upload: 6 January 2012
Portal dolmen; likely dates to the Neolithic period (c. 4000–2500 BCE). Its significance lies in contributing to the understanding of megalithic tomb distribution and construction techniques in western Ireland.

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