Time Team set for Viking search

THE Channel Four television programme Time Team may be invited to Youghal to try and solve one of the town’s most perplexing mysteries.

The location of the town's original Viking settlement remains just that a mystery. While many believe it is somewhere in the St Mary's Collegiate Church/Myrtle Grove/St Mary's College area, no one has, to date, been able to pinpoint its exact location.

Now Green Party town councillor Liam Burke believes an invitation should be extended to the Time Team programme to come to the East Cork resort. He insisted that if the Viking settlement is uncovered, it will considerably enhance Youghal's reputation as a heritage town.