Granard Motte

Granard Motte is the remains of a motte-and-bailey castle and National Monument in Granard, County Longford, Ireland. Granard Motte is placed inside the town of Granard, five.7 km west of Lough Kinale, overlooking the Inny valley. At an altitude of 163 m it's miles the highest motte in Ireland. The earthworks lie approximately 220 metres to the southwest of Granard metropolis on an increased site with panoramic views of the surrounding geographical region. Granard motte earthworks had been built c. 1199 through a Norman knight, Richard de Tuit.

It become erected upon and inside a pre-current hillfort, and has institutions with a nearby branch of the Ó Fearghail extended family. It seems that it was supposed as a frontier citadel on the NW border of the Anglo-Norman lordship of Meath and designed to suppress the O'Reilly's of S Breffny. In 1210 King John stayed here for the duration of his marketing campaign in opposition to Hugh de Lacy. The website later became called Rath Granard. According to Bradley, it is the most likely vicinity of the inauguration web site of the O'Farrells.