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Kernabat Farm, located between Tréguier and Minihy-Tréguier, is a former 15th century seigneurial mansion, partially converted into a farm. Its gothic gate, equipped with a carriageway and pedestrian door, as well as its hexagonal tower with a stone screw staircase, bear witness to its noble origin. The rear façade, recomposed in the 19th century, bears the vintage "1811", while windows with lintels in cellar betray old windings. The court, once fortified, preserves traces of round towers today ruined.

The mansion was served by a historical road and linked to the lordship of Kernabat, mentioned in 1437 with Jehan Lohogat as a tenant. In 1481 Geffroy Le Lagadec, Sieur de Kernabat, was named there as an archer carrying a brigandine, then in 1503 with two archers "well mounted". The seigneury then passed to the families of the Cosquer (François du Cozkaer in 1677) and Morinière. The toponym Kernabat, meaning "place inhabited by the abbot" in Breton, suggests a link with the bishops of Tréguier, who raised a toll on the boats.

The portal, registered with the Historic Monuments in 1931, illustrates a frequent Breton architectural model. The Chevalier de Fréminville (1837) describes a "main house built in Gothic style" with a "strongly beautiful cut stone screw", surrounded by a wall flanked by round towers. Departmental archives (cote 2 G 250) and photographs from 1973-1974 document its evolution, including its transformation into a farm in the 19th century.

Close to the Keroudot mansion and a fountain of devotion, Kernabat embodies the duality between seigneurial residence and agricultural activity. The modifications of the 19th century (especially in 1811) altered its structure, but medieval elements remain, such as the broken arched door or the fixing of defensive grids in the tower. The site, operated on a farm until the 20th century, reflects the social and economic history of the region, between nobility, clergy and peasantry.

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