Frankville
House

Frankville House is the home of Deg and Josephine Geraghty who are together with their daughter Cliona. They will be your Hosts if you decided to stay at their home. Their son Donnachadh, who is a professional chef working in Dublin, sometimes helps in the kitchen and if around during your stay, he will make for you some interesting eating. Lester, the family collie, will be sure to greet you at the drive and will show you an affectionate welcome.

The story of Frankville goes back a long way to the late 1700 when the present house was built by Mr. Francis Welsh a gentleman who farmed about 200 acres on the fringe of Athboy.
Athboy is a thriving 18th century Village one the boundary of the plane on the western boundaries of Leinster. Once it was a walled town. The walls can still be seen as ruins around the laneways and streets in present day in Athboy.

Originally called Greenville it is thought that Frankville was substituted to recall Frank and his wife Victoria around 1820.
The Earle of Darnley who subsequently acquired the town of Athboy and its lands, used the house for their land agents and a few generations of the Coggle family lives in it until around 1920.

After lying idle for some time, after the last war taken in charge by a brave body of mercy nuns from Trim who converted it into their Convent and built a Secondary School in the grounds and maintained a presence until 1998.

Deg and Josie Geraghty acquired the property in 2001 and transferred their B&B business from the far end of the town and started a 5 year-project of restoration and modernising while maintaining the georgian character to the house

  
Popular Tourist Attractions

 
Trim Castle
One of the many tourist attractions in the area. Oldest Normal castle in Europe, recently restored to allow guided tours of the keep and grounds giving a rare insight to life in Norman times in Ireland. Don’t forget the Power & the Glory video also included in your ticket. Trim Castle is the largest Anglo-Norman castle in Ireland. Hugh de Lacy began construction of the castle in about 1172 but the central tower - the keep - was not completed until the 1220s.

Newgrange/Brú na Bóinne
Newgrange is undoubtedly one of Ireland’s most significant and most spectacular passage-grave (a passage tomb covered by a large mound). It dates from 3000BC. It has also the special quality in that on every 21 December the sun shines directly through it.

Hill of Tara
This ancient site, and one of Ireland's premier attractions, was the symbolic seat of Ireland’s High Kings until the 11th century. Ring forts can be seen but unfortunately some were damaged by English searching for the Ark of the Covenant.

Battle of the Boyne Site
Site of the Battle of the Boyne, an important date in Irish history, between the Williamite and Jacobite forces, in July 1690.

Kells Heritage Town
The town of Kells  is situated 60km north west (N3) of Dublin in the historic Boyne Valley. The circular monastic enclosure protected Saint Columba's Church, the Round Tower and four of the town's five crosses. Nearby, Saint Colmcille's.
 

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