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Dermot & Granias Bed

Wedge tomb

What is recorded here

Dermot & Granias Bed is a wedge tomb in County Clare, Ireland. It is one of many ancient burial places where people laid their dead beneath large stones. The name suggests a local family or legend still lives inside the stones.
See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume I. County Clare. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1961) Date of upload: 30 December 2011
Portal dolmen; dates to the Neolithic period. It is part of the megalithic tradition in Ireland and reflects early communal burial practices.

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