Plan to convert former convent in Youghal into apartments

A Kildare-based building consortium hopes to convert a former secondary school and convent in East Cork into a luxurious apartment complex.

Youghal’s Loreto site had comprised school buildings and nuns’ living quarters, parts of which date to the mid-1800s.

The elevated 4.2-acre site on Lighthouse Hill has panoramic views of the Blackwater. The school closed in 2006, leaving the site to slowly fall into disrepair.