Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - unclassified
Cratlagh, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cratlagh
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dermot and Granias Bed (1905)
- Coordinates
- 55.10625, -7.73971
- SMR number
- DG036-001----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This feature is named 'Grania's Bed' on the original OS 6-inch map (1834) and 'Dermot and Grania's Bed' on the 1848 edition. There is outcropping rock at the point indicated on the OS 6-inch maps but no trace of an artificial feature. An OS Name Book (1834) records that there was an 'ancient grave' here, but no details are provided. According to an entry in a later, 1:2,500 Name Book (1903), the feature was a rock 'used by the ancient Irish for devotional purposes'. There is no reliable evidence that a megalithic tomb ever stood here.
OS Name Book, Kilmacrenan parish (1834-5), book 1, 3 (under Cool Upper); Borlase 1897, 232, Kilmacrenan no. 15; OS 1:2, 500 Name Book, sheet 36 (1903), 3; Killanin and Duignan 1962, 373; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 374; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 47, no. 153; SMR 1987, 36:1; RMP 1995, 36:1.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Penal Mass station1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassified1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.