Title

Irish Watering-Places - Youghall, County Cork, 1854. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

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.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM22B07_085

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Rights managed

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26,2Mb (2,5Mb) / 12,7in x 8,0in / 3805 x 2403 (300dpi)

Keywords

river bridge bridges British geography mouth Ireland structure cork century Britain newspapers press B&W estuary 19th century black & white black and white B W Munster nineteenth century The Print Collector geographical feature Illustrated London News TGN ILN newspaper engraving landscape Youghal Unknown Blackwater 19th-century