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.

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.