What is recorded here
Off the top of a low but prominent hill at the SW end of Granard town (LF010-055----) and 100m to the N of the motte and bailey (LF010-080001-). Granted to St Patrick by Coirpre’s sons (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 386). During the Anglo-Norman period Richard de Tuite and his heirs were patrons of the parish church at…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LF010-055001
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- 2ManyCats4Me, Wikimedia Commons · CC0
- Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Granard Motte.png : Smcq Derivative work: Hogweard, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
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