Youghal

English

Etymology

From Irish Eochaill.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Youghal

  1. A town and seaside resort in County Cork, Ireland (Irish grid ref X 1078).
    • 1955 May, Walter McGrath and Colm Creedon, “The Cork-Youghal-Cobh Section of C.I.E.”, in Railway Magazine, page 308:
      Serving the flat and fertile south-eastern part of Co. Cork is the railway that runs from Glanmire Road Station in Cork City to the popular seaside resort of Youghal (pronounced "Yawl") and the town of Cobh (pronounced "Cove"), which is Ireland's port of call for transatlantic liners.
  2. A townland in County Tipperary, Ireland.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.