Young was educated in Ryde, but due to a decline in her father's coach business after the advent of the motor car, she became a seamstress.
During the civil war, on 1 July 1922 Young barely escaped a stray bullet that was shot through her living-room window and lodged in the wall.
The Combridge Fine Art Gallery at the Shelbourne Hotel showed her a number of her paintings in 1940, primarily of Wicklow scenes, such as Lough Dan and the Sally Gap, and some areas of the south of France.
In 1944, she exhibited The beech wood in November with the RHA, and in the same year was featured in a show at Goodwin Galleries, Limerick, Irish Artists.
Young was featured in the An Tóstal exhibition at the International Hotel, Bray in 1954, with paintings such as Lough Mask and Dingle Bay, Co. Kerry.
Young died in a private nursing home on 8 February 1974, and is buried in St Patrick's churchyard, Enniskerry, County Wicklow.