The name itself suggests a connection to Youghal, the medieval walled port town on the Blackwater estuary in east Cork, one of the most historically layered towns in Munster. Market-houses were a common feature of Irish urban and semi-urban life from the seventeenth century onwards, typically serving as the commercial and civic centre of a settlement, where goods were weighed, tolls collected, and local governance conducted. That one was recorded here, in lands associated with or adjacent to Youghal, points to a degree of organised commercial activity that has since slipped from easy view.