High above Moneygal; is Bendubh mountain and near the summit is a Cairn.
It is described as Dermot & Grania’s Bed in the 25” OS
Maps from the early 1900s.
On archaeology.ie it is detailed as follows:
“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.”
I do recall references to it in the Schools Manuscripts but
I can’t find them to hand. Once I stumble across them again I will update the
post here.
It would be interesting to see who the names inscribed record?
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