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Tracton
Civil parish in County Cork, Ireland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tracton (Irish: Trácht Fhionn)[1] is a civil parish in southeast County Cork in Ireland. Lying roughly 7 kilometres south of Carrigaline, it lies within the Dáil constituency of Cork South-Central.[citation needed] The area is named after Tracton Abbey, a Cistercian monastery that was in the area in medieval times.[2]
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Tracton GAA club, based close to the village of Minane Bridge, won the Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship in 1991.[3]
Irish Republican Diarmuid Lynch was born in Tracton.[4]