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Megalithic tomb - unclassified

Tullynabratilly, County Donegal, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - unclassified, Tullynabratilly, County Donegal, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Tullynabratilly
County
Donegal
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Dermot and Granias Bed (1903)
Coordinates
55.26438, -7.36187
SMR number
DG010-019----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1881 map "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Scotland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1900 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 1. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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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

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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