What is recorded here

Dermot & Granias Bed (Site of) is a boulder-burial in Rathdermot, County Tipperary, Ireland. Two conglomerate boulders lie approximately 6.0 metres apart on an east-facing pasture slope, with the southern boulder measuring 1.25 metres long, 0.75 metres wide and 0.50 metres thick while resting on smaller support stones.

In undulating pasture, on an E-facing slope. Good views E-S-SW, particularly Galtee Mountains to S. Two conglomerate boulders c. 6m apart (oriented c. N-S). Scatter of stones around each, some pressed into sod. Boulder (L 1.25m E-W; Wth 0.75m; T 0.5m) to S resting on at least two other, smaller support stones. Second possible boulder-burial (TS067-060001-) located to N. Long axis of both stones orientated c. N-S. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

A portal dolmen dating to the Neolithic period. Its significance lies in its orientation and positioning, which may reflect ritual or funerary practices associated with landscape and celestial alignments.

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