2-913-770 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Irish Watering-Places - Youghall, County Cork, 1854. Town on the estuary of the River Blackwater. 'Youghal is the second town in the vast county of Cork - the Yorkshire of Ireland...The town...is of remotest antiquity. It was called Eo-chailie (Anglicised into Youghal), or the Yew Wood, from its position at the base of a low range of hills, ones clad with indigenous forests of yew-trees'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.