Youghal, County Cork
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County Cork · Munster

Youghal

Eochaill

'yew wood'

The story

A walled Norman port at the mouth of the Blackwater. Walter Raleigh was its mayor and lived at Myrtle Grove; the story that he planted Ireland's first potatoes here is a good one that historians cannot verify. Moby Dick was filmed in the harbour in 1954.

Worth seeing nearby
  • St Declan's Well, Ardmore · Declan brought Christianity to the Déisi before Patrick came; his cliff-top well, oratory and 'stone that floated from Wales' are still visited on 24 July.
  • Kindred Spirits, Midleton · Nine great steel feathers in a circle, honouring the Choctaw Nation's $170 gift to Ireland in 1847 — sent sixteen years after their own Trail of Tears.

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