Myrtle Grove, Youghal

Myrtle Grove is an Elizabethan gabled house in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland.

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.

[2] 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.

[8] "Myrtle Grove", a poem written in Spenserian stanzas by James Reiss, and published in Fugue magazine (the University of Idaho) in 2007, develops the legend that Edmund Spenser wrote portions of his great epic, The Faerie Queene, under an aureole window in the South Gable of Raleigh's house.