Its history ...

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 in Leinster. It was once 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 renamed after Frank and his wife Victoria around 1820.

The Earl 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.

The house then became the home of the manager of the local branch of the Ulster Bank until after 1940.

After lying idle for some time, it was taken over by the mercy nuns who converted it into their Convent and built a Secondary School in the grounds and mainted a presence until 1998.

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