Myrtle Grove, Youghal
place in Youghal
Myrtle Grove is an Elizabethan gabled house in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland. The house is notable as a rare example in Ireland of a 16th-century unfortified house. It is situated close to the Collegiate Church of St Mary Youghal.
History
It was home for Sir Walter Raleigh from 1588 to 1589. Myrtle Grove's South gable is where Edmund Spenser is reputed to have written part of his poem The Faerie Queene, although some historians question this story. The house was acquired by Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork in 1602 from Sir Walter Raleigh's Irish estate. Boyle leased it to his protege Sir Lawrence Parsons, the judge of the Irish Admiralty Court. Though remodelled twice it remains one of the best-known examples of a Tudor house in Ireland. The house was acquired by the Hayman family in the 18th century.
In the 20th century, it was the home of Sir Henry Arthur Blake and Lady Blake.
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