Thoor Ballylee

Peaceful Path to Yeats Tower

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...

Path through Yeats' Fairy Forest at Ballylee, County Galway

Path through Yeats’ Fairy Forest, County Galway

Sunlight streams through trees as a serpentine path winds its way through wildflowers in the ‘fairy forest’ alongside Thoor Ballylee, former summer home to Ireland’s famed Nobel Prize-winning Poet W. B. Yeats, in County...

Magical World of W.B. Yeats

Magical and Mystical World of William Butler Yeats

Contortionist trees, luminescent moss and the mirror-like gently flowing waters of County Galway’s Streamstown River once provided other-worldly inspiration to one of Ireland’s national treasures — the Poet William Butler Yeats. “The mystical life...

Reflections at Yeats Thoor Ballylee

Reflections at Yeats Thoor Ballylee

County Galway’s Streamstown River reflects the blue sky, accented by radiant green moss-shrouded trees in the woodlands surrounding Thoor Ballylee, once home of famed Irish Poet and Nobel Laureate William Butler Yeats. A short...