Thor Ballylee, a tower house in County Galway, is thought to date from the Fifteenth Century when many tower houses like this were built across Ireland. Picturesquely situated beside a bridge at a bend in a river, it is most famous today for its association with the poet WB Yates who restored the house in the early 1920’s and used it as a summer house for ten years.
The following poem is inscribed on the wall of the building:
I, the poet William Yeats,
With old mill boards and sea-green slates,
And smithy work from the Gort forge,
Restored this tower for my wife George.
And may these characters remain
When all is ruin once again.
The following poem is inscribed on the wall of the building:
I, the poet William Yeats,
With old mill boards and sea-green slates,
And smithy work from the Gort forge,
Restored this tower for my wife George.
And may these characters remain
When all is ruin once again.
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