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County Offaly (King's Co.), Ireland
TOWNS
Frankford or Kilcormuck
description
from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
FRANKFORD, or KILCORMUCK, a market and post-town, in the parish and barony of BALLYBOY, KING'S county, and province of LEINSTER, 9½ miles (S. W.) from Tullamore, and 59 (S, W,) from Dublin city, on the Silver river, and on the road from Tullamore to Parsonstown(Birr) ; containing 204 houses and 1112 inhabitants.
A considerable corn market is held every Saturday; and fairs on May 28th and Nov, 8th. It is a constabulary police station, and has petty sessions on Saturdays.
It gives name to the Roman Catholic union or district, of which Ballyboy is the head, and contains the chapel.
Here is a
meeting-house under the Home Mission Society, and a dispensary. A monastery
for Carmelites, or White Friars, was founded at this place by Odo, son of
Nellan O'Molloy, dynast of the circumjacent territory of Fircal,
or Fearcall ; the founder died in 1454, and was buried before the high altar.
On the suppression of "monasterie", this house and its dependencies
were granted to Robert Leycester, Esq.
from whose family it passed by marriage to the Magawleys, whose seat,
Temora, is in the vicinity, The present name of the town seems to
be derived from the family of Frank, of whom James Frank, Esq.
founded here a charter school, opened in 1753, for upwards of forty children.
Near the town is Broghill castle, formerly the chief seat of the
O'Molloys, and once held by the sept of O'Connor : it was
taken, in 1538, by Lord Leonard Gray, The estate now belongs to the
Fitzsimon family.
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