Youghal!

 This past weekend we went on a trip to Youghal and Ardmore with the Chaplaincy group at UCC. Our first stop was Youghal, a town about 45 minutes from Cork full of history. Youghal used to be the third largest port in all of the British isles and held 19,000 people in a town not even a mile long. Now its a VERY small port. What you see here is pretty much it...

 This is called Cromwell's arch. Cromwell tortured many Irish people and is very rarely spoken about here because of the damage he caused. This was the place where he left Ireland in 1650. This is one of the only remaining walls from the Medieval times.

 The movie Moby Dick was shot in Youghal and there is now a bar in the place where one of the scenes was filmed!

 This is the clocktower which doubles as a prison. People were publiclly hanged from the windows and flogged on the steps leading to the top of the tower. This also represented the division in Youghal between those loyal to the British and those who were not. Those within the walls, or to the right of this picture were given better housing and markets while those living outside the walls which is literally .2 miles long once housed the 10,000 people that were not in favor of the British.

 This is called the "red house" which a famous family called the Uniacke's stayed. I just thought it was really pretty!

 The doors were so small!

 St. Mary's Collegiate Church, which has both Protestant and Catholic masses because it is the only church in the town. Like the Old Church at home, this church was in the form of a crucifix with the pulpit at the "heart" of Jesus and at the "feet" was the people with leprosy's pews. There were so many people with leprosy kicked off boats coming from all across the country that Youghal had a whole section in church dedicated to them

 There were many gravesites surrounding the church, but i liked the bible headstone on this grave.

 This is Richard Boyle, the first earl of Cork's momument. There is one similar in St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. Boyle was so worried about not being remembered through the rest of time, so he designed these two monuments for future generations to never forget him.

 amazing view!

couldn't help myself, the pastries were sooooo amazing!!

Youghal was a country rich with history. William Shakespeare performed right by where Moby Dick's is currently. Also, one of the men in the queens "favor" resided here and given the majority of land in Youghal until he got on the queen's ladies in waiting pregnant. Then she gave the land to Boyle which was passed through the generations of his fifteen children.