Youghal's Dark Past - Moll Goggins Corner

The legend has it that Moll Goggin waited for her lover to return home from the sea. She waited in vain, got pneumonia or consumption and died. Legend tells us she was seen here on a night of the full moon, staring out to sea. She was always wearing a long dark dress and had something like a bright shawl wrapped around her shoulders. She would stand there, staring out to sea and then – Suddenly – she would vanish, into thin air, as if she was never there. The corner is named after her. The truth of the story comes from the Lighthouse. Let us make our way there.