Knockgraffon Motte and Bailey

Knockgraffon motte and bailey is five km north of Cahir, Co. Tipperary. Motte-and–bailey castles were traditionally a wooden keep erected upon a mound of earth called a motte, surrounded by an enclosed courtyard, surrounded by a protective palisade called a bailey. Knockgraffon is a Norman motte, dating to 1192 and was built against Dómhnall Mór Ua Briain, King of Thomond and of Munster (who e...