Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb

The National Monuments Service's description

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

References

Westropp, T.J. 1902-4 The cists, dolmens, and pillars in the eastern half of the county of Clare. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 24C, 107-131.

De Valera and Ó Nualláin 1961 Survey of the megalithic tombs of Ireland, vol. i, County Clare. Dublin. Stationery Office.