What is recorded here

No bed remains for Dermot and Grania to share. The wedge tomb vanished before the twentieth century, leaving only a name behind on the pasture slope where Westropp once measured its defaced stone sides. What is left is the shape of the loss: a place known for what it stopped being, remembered through the absence of the very stones that gave it life.

This feature, named as ‘Dermot and Grania’s Bed’ on the 1840 OS 6-inch map stood in gently undulating pasture, toward the top of a gentle SE-facing slope with limited views of the surrounding landscape. Westropp (1902-04, 112 (b)) drew a plan of the monument and described it as ‘a defaced little cist, 12 feet long and 4 feet 9 inches wide. The sides and ends remain; and a cover-slab, now partly buried, lies on the north-west slab. The south side lies ENE and WSW’. The monument is named as ‘Site of’ on the OS 25-inch map suggesting that it was no longer extant by the late 19th century. De Valera and Ó Nualláin (1961, 91, no. 2) describe it as the site of a probable wedge tomb. On inspection in 2017 there were no visible remains of any such features at ground level. The site of another wedge tomb (CL035-007----) is c. 55m to the S. The following document is uploaded: CL035-006----_01.pdf Details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume I. County Clare. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1961) Revised by: Mary Tunney and Alison McQueen Date of revision: 25 October 2017

A portal dolmen; likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. It is significant as a surviving example of a megalithic monument associated with a local folklore name, reflecting both its archaeological and cultural heritage.

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