Megalithic tomb - unclassified

The National Monuments Service's description

This feature was named 'Grania's Bed' on the original OS 6-inch map (1834) and 'Dermot and Grania's Bed' on the edition of 1848. All trace of it had been removed by 1945 (Colhoun 1995). It stood in pasture on the S-facing slope of Coolcross Hill. There are two short accounts of this feature. In the OS 1:2,500 Name Book (1900-1901) it is described as 'an antiquity consisting of a few stones forming a rectangle'. Somerville (1929, 155-6) gave the following description: 'This appears to be the remains of a chamber grave. It is greatly ruined, and now consists of three slabs of stone only, set on their edges in the ground, parallel to one another, 5 feet [c. 1.5m] apart, marking the two sides of the grave; each slab being about 6 feet [c. 1.8m] long and 3 feet [c. 0.9m] high above present ground level. The capstone and all other of its original features have disappeared.' This may have been a megalithic tomb, but it cannot reliably be accepted as one on the available evidence.
Borlase 1897, 229, Inishowen East no. 5; OS 1:2,500 Name Book, sheet 10 (1900-1901), 37; Somerville 1929, 155-6; Colhoun 1949, 117; Killanin and Duignan 1962, 87; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 98; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 49, no. 185; SMR 1987, 10:19; Colhoun 1995, 23; RMP 1995, 10:19.

The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002).

Date of upload: 22 September 2008