The Lower Floors of Yeats Thoor Ballylee
The Yeats Thoor Ballylee Society, a local non-profit group, has taken over the former home of Poet and Nobel Laureate W. B. Yeats near Gort in County Galway and is raising funds to restore...
Thoor Ballylee
Into the ‘Stranger’s Room’ at Yeats Thoor Ballylee
The uppermost floor at Thoor Ballylee, the 15th Century Norman castle once home to Poet William Butler Yeats near Gort in County Galway, remains essentially unchanged from its 600-year-old decor save the remnants and...
View from Thoor Ballylee Rooftop Battlements
High above the County Galway countryside, these sculpted limestone battlements, bleached by nature over more than 600 years, granted the Norman builders of Thoor Ballylee (Yeats Tower) a crisp view of the surrounding terrain...
Peaceful Path to Yeats’ Tower
This footpath along the Streamstown River in County Galway, Ireland, leads to Thoor Ballylee, a 15th or 16th Century Norman Tower House and former home to Poet and Nobel Laureate William Butler Yeats. Once...
