Collegiate Church of St Mary Youghal

St Mary's Collegiate Church, Youghal, County Cork, Ireland is a Church of Ireland Church in Youghal, east County Cork and a part of the Diocese of Cloyne, that is a constituent diocese of the United Dioceses of Cork, Cloyne and Ross. The church is probably to have been a monastic agreement of Saint Declan of Ardmore c 450. It changed into rebuilt in Irish Romanesque style c750 and the Great Nave was erected in the year 1220. The roof timbers have been carbon dated by using Queen's University Belfast to the year 1170.

There became an early 13th century re building and this became below the direction and hand of the Masters of four neighborhood guilds of operative masons, whose marks are nonetheless to be determined on the pillars of the gothic arches. The earliest access in the vestry e book of Youghal is a assertion of parish accounts for 1201. Pope Nicholas IV, inside the taxations of 1291, described Youghal as being the richest benefice in Cloyne. The listing of clergy can be traced again to this date. On St John's day 27 December 1464 St. Mary's turned into made a Collegiate Church, with the muse of Our Lady's College of Yoghill by means of Thomas Fitz Gerald.