What is recorded here
Thomas Fagan (1845-8) wrote the following account of a site he visited in 1845: 'In the townland of Creenasmear and holding of John Kelly and others 2 miles [c. 3.2km] NE the road from Letterkenny to Crossroads [now Falcarragh] stands the ruins of an ancient place of sepulture locally called Dermot and Grania's Bed.…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DG034-005
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- Maker not stated on source page, explore.baltimoreheritage.org
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- C.B.Doak (user Zorba the Geek ), Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Rossographer, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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- Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
- Kenneth Allen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Daragh McDonough, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
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