Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - Carmelite friars
Frankford, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Frankford
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.17742, -7.72688
- SMR number
- OF031-012001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's 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
Nearby in the register
- Churchyardunder 1 mi
- Crucifixion plaqueunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.