What is recorded here

Dermod and Granias Bed is a cairn (unclassified) in Cloncannon, County Tipperary, Ireland. It stands on a mountain top with extensive views. A low ring of flat slabs, 0.4 metres high and 5.2 metres across, encloses a sunken area 2.5 metres wide and 0.8 metres deep. Some slabs carry inscribed names.

Situated on top of a mountain with extensive views. A sunken area (diam. 2.5m; D 0.8m) enclosed by a low cairn of flat slabs some of which have names inscribed on their surface (overall diam. 5.2m; H 0.4m). This could be a small cairn of prehistoric date or a nineteenth-century cairn associated with a local folk tradition. Not depicted on 1st ed. (1840) OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

A Neolithic or early Bronze Age cairn tomb, possibly a simple cist burial with later additions. Its location and inscribed stones suggest ritual or commemorative significance, though its exact function remains uncertain.

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