Frankford

246 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Frankford, from 2 m² to 57,761 m² (5.78 ha, 14.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 49 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 178 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Town Centre/Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 28 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space, Amenity and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Services/Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Strategic Residential Reserve
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 19 Dec 2025N/a

  the Demolition of existing agricultural buildings and construction of 19 no. dwellings, comprising of a mix of single and two storey house types- 2 no. 2 beds, 13 no. 3 beds and 4 no. 4 beds, new road and footpath connections to adjoining Frankford estate, new site boundary treatments, hard and soft landscaping, ancillary site services and all associated site works

  Permission, 19 homes · Offaly County Council, 2560669

• 10 Jun 2024Conditional

  the construction of a new single storey community sports shed with an internal artificial grass area, an external artificial grass area, the construction of a new boundary fence and all associated site works to complete the development.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460216

• 16 Apr 2024Conditional

  the demolition of the existing rear single-storey extension, the construction of a new single-storey pitched roof & two-storey hipped roof extension to the rear, along with elevational alterations to the front of an existing two-storey semi-detached dwelling, complete with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460131

• 11 Apr 2024Conditional

  the construction of a new single-story extension to the rear of the dwelling, internal alterations to rooms at Ground and First floor level, the demolition of existing shed and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460123

• 10 Apr 2024N/a

  the demolition of the existing rear single-storey extension, the construction of a new single-storey pitched roof & two-storey hipped roof extension to the rear, along with elevational alterations to the front of an existing two-storey semi-detached dwelling, complete with all associated site works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460119

• 21 Dec 2023Conditional

  ALTERATIONS TO THE STAFF AREA/KITCHEN/OMISSION OF EXTERNAL STORAGE WITH TOTAL FLOOR AREA OF 22m2 AND ASSOCIATED CHANGES TO THE ELEVATIONS AS A RESULT AS BUILT ON THIS SITE FRANKFORD, KILCORMAC, CO. OFFALY. PLANNING PERMISSION IS SOUGHT TO UPDATE THE LAYOUT FOR USE FROM PRESCHOOL AND AFTERSCHOOL TO FULL DAY CHILDCARE CENTRE WITH A TOTAL FLOOR AREA OF 249.3m2 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SIGNAGE AND SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 23435

• 16 Oct 2023Conditional

  for change of use from storage yard to public carpark, public lighting, electric vehicle parking, and all associated site works. This development is within the curtilage of a N.I.A.H. Building ref. no. 14815007.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2360149

• 20 Oct 2022Refused

  CHANGE OF USE FROM STORAGE YARD TO PUBLIC CARPARK, PUBLIC LIGHTING, ELECTRIC VEHICLE PARKING, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. THIS DEVELOPMENT IS WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF A N.I.A.H. BUILDING REF. NO. 14815007

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 22541

• 20 Jul 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A BICYCLE RENTAL SHOP, STORE AND COMPOUND, CAFÉ UNIT BUILDING WITH OFFICE, SANITARY ACCOMMODATION, ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING CARPARK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 22358

• 23 May 2022N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF 18 NO. THREE BEDROOM SEMI-DETACHED TWO STOREY DWELLINGS, DEMOLITION OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS ON SITE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 18 homes · Offaly County Council, 22256

• 19 May 2022N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A BICYCLE RENTAL SHOP, STORE AND COMPOUND, CAFÉ UNIT BUILDING WITH OFFICE, SANITARY ACCOMMODATION, ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING CARPARK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22252

• 1 Apr 2022N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A BICYCLE RENTAL SHOP, STORE AND COMPOUND, CAFÉ UNIT BUILDING WITH OFFICE, SANITARY ACCOMMODATION, ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING CARPARK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 22158

• 9 Mar 2022N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF 18 NO. THREE BEDROOM SEMI-DETACHED TWO STOREY DWELLINGS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 18 homes · Offaly County Council, 22112

• 25 Feb 2022Conditional

  TO ILLUMINATE EXISTING WALKING TRACK AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2282

• 15 Dec 2021N/a

  AN ILLUMINATED WALKING TRACK AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 21774

• 24 Nov 2021Conditional

  THE CHANGE OF USE OF AN EXISTING DWELLING AND PUBLIC HOUSE TO PROVIDE FOR 2 NO. TWO BEDROOM TOWNHOUSES, MODIFICATIONS TO FRONT AND REAR FACADES, INDIVIDUAL PRIVATE OPEN SPACE, REAR GATED ACCESS, AND ALL ASSOCIATED INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS AND SITEWORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 21725

• 22 Oct 2020Refused

  AN EXTENSION & CHANGE OF USE OF OUTBUILDING TO RESIDENTIAL UNIT. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION, ALTERATIONS & RENOVATIONS TO THE INTERNAL LAYOUT AND DEMOLITION TO PART OF EXISTING BUILDING. PERMISSION IS ALSO SOUGHT TO CONNECT INTO EXISTING ON SITE SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ( THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT CONSIST OF WORKS TO AN OUTBUILDING OF A PROTECTED STRUCTURE REF 41-04)

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20517

• 24 Aug 2020Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING FORMER CONVENT AND ASSOCIATED BUILDINGS TO REHABILITATION UNIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS ( THE BUILDING IS A PROTECTED STRUCTURE)

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20385

• 5 Aug 2020N/a

  CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING RESIDENTIAL CONVENT SCHOOL TO RESIDENTIAL REHABILITATION UNIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS ( THE BUILDING IS A PROTECTED STRUCTURE)

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 20352

• 6 Jul 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING FUEL STORE AND ATTIC STORAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20272

• 26 Feb 2020N/a

  THE CHANGE OF USE AND RENOVATION OF AN EXISTING DWELLING AND PUBLIC HOUSE, TO PROVIDE FOR TWO TOWN HOUSES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 2058

• 16 May 2019Conditional

  ADDITION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, DEMOLISH EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE, BUILD NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE/FUEL SHED AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 19227

• 8 Feb 2018Conditional

  DEVELOPMENT OF NEW G.A.A. PITCH WITH ASSOCIATED FLOODLIGHTING, INSTALL FLOODLIGHTING TO EXISTING G.A.A. PITCH, CONSTRUCT NEW GYMNASIUM, NEW OUTBUILDING TO HOUSE GENERATOR AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 1851

• 30 Jan 2018N/a

  DEVELOPMENT OF NEW G.A.A. PITCH WITH ASSOCIATED FLOODLIGHTING, INSTALLATION OF FLOODLIGHTING TO EXISTING G.A.A. PITCH, CONSTRUCTION OF NEW GYMNASIUM, NEW OUTBUILDING TO HOUSE GENERATOR AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 1832

• 16 Aug 2017Conditional

  REFURBISHMENT OF AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING HOUSE, WHICH IS A PROTECTED STRUCTURE, TO INCLUDE EXTERIOR WINDOWS, DOORS AND ROOF TILES TO FRONT AND REAR OF HOUSE. INTERIOR RENOVATIONS TO INCLUDE PARTIAL DEMOLITION OF EXISTING INTERIOR WALLS, INSTALLATION OF PASSENGER LIFT, RENOVATION OF EXISTING BEDROOMS, BATHROOMS AND CIRCULATORY SPACES, AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY WORKS. THE BUILDING IS A PROTECTED STRUCTURE

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17301

The 25 most recent of 28 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Frankford.

Recorded monuments

• OF031-011 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  On level pasture land. Natural spring well enclosed by round arched stone canopy with the word Cormac inscribed over the arch. There is a stone cross on top of the canopy with stations of the cross erected around the well. These improvements are all modern additions. (O' Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 43) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF031-012001 Religious house - Carmelite friars
  Description

  No surface trace of Abbey founded by Odo, son of Nellan O' Molloy who died in 1454 (Flanagan 1927, 42-3). R C Church now occupies the site of the abbey with a 16th century stone sculpture representing the crucifixion with vine motif and 3 early medieval mortars embedded in the modern churchyard wall. Inside the church there is a 16th century wooden pieta of possible Italian origin (JRSAI 1947, 77). The three mortars display evidence of diagonal stone tooling with four lugs on each mortar. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF031-012002 Churchyard
  Description

  Modern churchyard enclosing RC church at Kilcormac on the site of a Carmelite friary founded by Odo, son of Nellan O' Molloy who died in 1454 (Flanagan 1927, 42-3). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF031-012004 Crucifixion plaque
  Description

  Possible 16th-century crucifixion figure with vine leaf motif, embedded into the enclosing churchyard wall of the catholic church at Kilcormac which was built on the site of the Carmelite friary (OF031-012001-). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, with return to rear and shopfront inserted to ground floor. Now derelict. Fronts directly onto street. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks, rendered coping and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledash render to walls with smooth render to plinth. Timber sash windows with stone sills to ground floor. Square-headed door opening with timber battened door and overlight. Timber shopfront with pilasters, console brackets and fascia board with cornice. Pebbledash rendered boundary wall to south.

• Kilcormac Garda Síochána Station, court house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey petty sessions house, built c.1800, with single-storey advanced flanking wings. In use as a Garda station. Set back from street. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Hipped roofs to wings. Pebbledashed walls with smooth render to plinth and eaves course. Replacement uPVC windows with tooled stone sills. Round-headed rendered coved surround to timber panelled door with timber spoked fanlight and brass door furniture. Tooled limestone step to door. Wrought-iron bootscraper. Front site bounded by cast- and wrought-iron railings and gate.

• Franckford House, house, 1800–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1830, with two-bay two-storey block to south and double-pile return to rear. Set within its own grounds. Hipped tiled roof with terracotta ridge tiles and rendered chimneystacks with terracotta pots. Pitched tiled roof to southern block with terracotta ridge tiles and yellow brick chimneystack. Smooth rendered walls. Timber sash windows with tooled limestone sills. Round-headed door opening with fanlight, rendered surround with rope moulding and timber battened door. Tooled limestone steps with wrought-iron railings to door. Round-headed door opening with fanlight and timber battened door to southern block. Ranges of pitched slate and corrugated-iron outbuildings to rear, some rendered and arranged around courtyard with round-arched stone gateways to further ranges of outbuildings. Remains of random coursed boundary wall and gate piers to front site.

• Distillery, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay three-storey former distillery, built c.1840, with corrugated-iron projecting bay and flat-roofed extension to north-east. Now derelict. Set within its own grounds. Half-hipped slate roof with vents and terracotta ridge tiles. Random coursed walls, blackened to west. Moulded yellow brick surrounds to openings. Square-headed door openings to upper floors with timber battened doors. Interior with pulley workings still in situ and terracotta kiln tiles to part of top floor. Half-hipped outbuilding to north-east with squared coursed limestone walls and yellow brick to openings. Site bounded by random coursed walls with cut stone gate piers to east.

• Southaven, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, with canted bay extension to west. Rear abuts rear of house to south. Set within yard. Modern tiled lean-to roof with rendered chimneystacks, terracotta pots and replacement rainwater goods. Random coursed walls, painted to original section. Timber sash windows with tooled stone sills to flat-arched and camber-arched window openings. Timber casement windows with moulded red brick surrounds to extension. Square-headed door opening with timber battened door. Glazed timber door with moulded red brick surround to extension. Corrugated-iron shed to east. Random coursed wall with gate piers to yard.

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay two-storey house, built c.1860, with lean-to extension to rear and shopfront to ground floor. Fronts directly onto street. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth render to ground floor with moulded rendered string course, plinth and quoins. Pebbledash render to first floor. Exposed random coursed walls to side and rear. Timber sash windows with stone sills. Rendered block-and-start window surrounds to ground floor. Square-headed door opening with rendered block-and-start surround, replacement timber panelled door and overlight. Shopfront comprising rendered stallriser, central double glazed timber door, flanked by display windows and timber pilasters with timber fascia and cornice over. Pitched roofed, random coursed outbuildings to rear.

• Outbuilding, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached gable-fronted single-bay two-storey former mill building, built c.1850, with modern porch and further mill buildings to rear. Now a builder's suppliers. Fronts directly onto street with yard to side. Pitched tiled roof with rendered coping. Rendered walls with timber eaves course. Segmental-headed window openings with timber battened shutters and painted sills. Aluminum door to modern porch and replacement shop window to ground floor gable wall. Pitched corrugated-iron roof to rear three-storey buildings with rendered walls. Ruled-and-lined-rendered wall to side yard with piers and wrought-iron gates.

• B. Feighery and Sons, house, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace corner-sited five-bay two-storey house, built c.1870, with pub and shop to ground floor. Fronts directly onto street. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and rendered chimneystacks. Smooth render to ground floor with plinth. Pebbledash render to first floor. Rendered quoins and string course. Square-headed window openings with rendered block-and-start surrounds and painted sills. Square-headed door opening with overlight and block-and-start surround. Shopfront with rendered stallrisers, central timber door and display windows, flanked by rendered, fluted pilasters and console brackets to fascia board. Benchmark to corner wheel guard stone.

• House, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey house, built c.1840, with single-storey extension to rear and pub to ground floor. Fronts directly onto street. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Ruled-and-lined render to walls with quoins. Smooth render to extension. Replacement timber casement windows to rendered surrounds with stone sills. Label mouldings to ground floor windows. Stucco keystones to first floor. Replacement doors, two timber and one aluminum, with rendered surrounds. Replacement timber panelled doors to square-headed integral carriage arch. Modern fascia.

• Saint Anne's, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1820. Now in guest house use. Set back from street. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge cresting, ruled-and-lined rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with rendered eaves course and quoins. Replacement timber casement windows with moulded rendered surrounds and stone sills. Round-headed door opening with timber spoked fanlight and sidelights, all with replacement glass. Replacement timber panelled door. Limestone steps over basement to door with ruled-and-lined rendered walls and piers bounding front site with wrought-iron pedestrian gate and replacement timber vehicular gates.

• Convent of Mercy, convent/nunnery, 1880–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached eight-bay two-storey convent, built c.1885, with advanced gabled end bays, and return and extensions to rear. Set within its own grounds. Hipped slate roof with rendered and yellow brick chimneystacks. Modillions to timber eaves course. Pebbledash render to walls with smooth plinth, limestone string course and quoins to corners. Segmental-headed window openings with moulded brick surrounds, replacement aluminum windows and tooled limestone sills. Pointed-arched block-and-start ashlar limestone door surround with brick arch above, enclosing limestone panel with stained glass quatrefoil above square-headed timber panelled door. Concrete step to door with tooled limestone threshold. Cast-iron bootscraper. Walled orchard and ornamental garden to rear. Front site bounded by smooth-rendered wall with coping and cast- and wrought-iron gates.

• Catholic Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, church/chapel, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Roman Catholic church, built c.1880, with six-bay nave, lean-to side aisles, chancel to west and sacristy to south-west. Built on the site of a former chapel. Pitched slate roofs with limestone coping, carved stone cross finials, limestone chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Terracotta ridge cresting to sacristy and chancel. Cut stone bellcote to east gable. Snecked limestone walls with dressed stone quoins. Pointed-arched window openings with block-and-start surrounds and stained glass to nave. Rose window to east elevation. Traceried stained glass windows to chancel and western aisle. Shoulder-arched openings to sacristy. Pointed-arched door openings with limestone block-and-start surrounds, hoodmouldings with floral stops and double timber battened doors. Timber roof trusses to interior. Grave markers to yard. Stone grotto in corner of yard near pointed-arched gateway with cast-iron gate to convent. Cross from Cistercian monastery in boundary wall. Churchyard bounded by random coursed wall with ruled-and-lined wall to eastern end with piers and cast-iron gates. Swivel cast-iron pedestrian gate.

• The Midland Bar, house, 1830–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced five-bay two-storey house, built c.1850, with pubfront to ground floor. Fronts directly onto street. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, ruled-and-lined rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledashed walls with rendered quoins. Replacement timber sash windows with painted sills. Square-headed door openings with overlights and timber panelled doors to house and shop, both flanked by fluted timber pilasters with timber cornice and console brackets over.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1763 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Frankford with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Frankford · Cill Chormaic

Area

877,039 m² (87.7 ha, 216.72 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyboy, and its townlands

Barony

Ballyboy

Electoral division

Kilcormac, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilcormac electoral division: 1,486 people in 551 households; 73% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballincloghan, Ballincloghan Little, Ballycollin Lower, Freagh, Kilnagall, Kyleboher, Park, Raheenmeel

Placenames

Frankford on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.