Planning sought for supermarkets in Youghal

Planning permission is being sought to build supermarkets on two former textile factories in an east Cork town.

The sites for the proposed developments are the former Youghal Carpets building along with the crumbling Seafield Technical textiles premises on 3.7 acres in the town’s Strand area.

In their 1970s heydays, the sites once employed over 700 and 190 respectively. Youghal has shed over 2,000 jobs in the intervening years, mostly industrial and technology related.