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Youghal - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16) |
 | | YOUGHAL (pronounced Yawl), a seaport, market town and watering-place of county Cork, Ireland, on the W. side of the Blackwater estuary, and on the Cork and Youghal branch of the Great Southern and Western railway, 264 m. |
 | | He was mayor of Youghal in 1588-89, and is said to have first cultivated the potato here. |
 | | Youghal (Eschaill, " the Yew wood") was made a settlement of the Northmen in the 9th century, and was incorporated by King John in 1209. |
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