Quays key to Youghal’s renewal guiding €1.5m

Youghal Shipping and Storage has used the site for decades, continuing an export tradition going back centuries

Youghal Bay setting on the Blackwater for Green's Quay. It's being sold in two lots for Youghal Shipping and Storage with a guide of €1.5m via agent Brian Gleeson. Picture Karen Dempsey

A WATERFRONT site in a Munster town with over 1,000 years of history and maritime trade, and with scope for urban regeneration or marine-based energy uses, has come to market.

Up for sale is over six acres of redevelopment urban and waterside land along the River Blackwater’s estuary at Green’s Quay, located on the eastern end of the town of Youghal along the river boundary with West Waterford.