Youghal - St Mary's Church

Just after the beginning of the one-way system Youghal's William Street branches off North Main Street on the right to St Mary's Church, a collegiate church founded in the early 13th C. and subsequently much rebuilt (most recently the choir in 1854). The church has three aisles and a separate tower. Notable features of the interior are the oak carving in the nave, the font and a number of tombs, in particular the elaborately sculptured monument of Richard Boyle (1619) in the south transept, where he lies buried with his two wives and nine of his 16 children. In the churchyard are remains of the old fortifications (15th-16th C.), with walls and towers extending southeast along the west side of the town for a distance of some 650yd/600m.