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Dermot & Granias Bed is a wedge tomb in County Galway, Ireland, where three stones still hold a narrow chamber open on low farmland. The chamber is about 3.5m long, narrows from 1.6m to 1.3m, and leans ENE-WSW beside a small stream. A large roofstone rests across the sidestones, while faint traces of a buried mound remain at the north and west. People may have placed the dead inside that shallow stone chamber before the earth and grass took the chamber back.

On low ground in undulating farmland, c. 200m to the SE of a small stream. This tomb consists of a wedge-shaped chamber (L c. 3.5m; Wth 1.6m at W narrowing to 1.3m at E), aligned ENE-WSW, formed by a single sidestone at N and two sidestones at S which support a large roofstone. Traces of a low mound are present at N and W. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 300; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 23) 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 wedge-shaped chamber and alignment are characteristic of regional funerary traditions in western Ireland.

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