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ナックグラフォン Knockgraffon Motte(Tipperary/IRL)

城郭(城塞) 平城 モット・アンド・ベイリー 12世紀
 The parish of New Inn also includes Knockgraffon (Cnoc Rafann), a completely rural locality which is home to a ruined medieval church and graveyard. Knockgraffon was once a village in its own right, but the settlement was abandoned some time in the eigteenth century. Around 1610, the Irish historian Geoffrey Keating was appointed Parish Priest of Knockgraffon. Notably, Knockgraffon is home to the remains of a motte which dates from the late 12th century.
 Knockgraffon was also the centre of the O'Sullivan clan's ancestral lands, until that family was displaced by the Normans in the early 13th century. In 1998, the Knockgraffon Motte was purchased by an O'Sullivan (Gary Brian Sullivan of Statesboro, Georgia, USA) from its Norman-Irish owner (Donal Keating of Cahir, Ireland). It is the first time that Knockgraffon has been back in O'Sullivan possession for nearly 800 years. Other townlands include: Ardneasa, Boytonrath, Chamberlainstown, Derryclooney, Garrandea, Garranlea, Lagganstown, Lough Kent, Masterstown, Marlhill, Outrath.
 
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