Cinque Ports in Ireland

In 1462, a charter granted to the Irish borough of Youghal in County Cork made it "one of the Petylymmes [i.e. petty limbs] of the Cinque Ports in Ireland". William Gordon Perrin assumed in 1922 that this referred to the English Cinque Ports, as the then Lordship of Ireland was subordinate to the Kingdom of England. On the other hand, George Bernard O'Connor stated in 1906 that the Queen's Cinque Ports of Ireland in the reign of Elizabeth I were the important seaports on the east coast of Ireland.